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"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



"CHERRY AND BLACK 



THE CAREER OF 

MR. PIERRE LORILLARD 

ON THE TURF 



BY 

W. S. VOSBURGH " 
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PRINTED FOR PIERRE LORILLARD 
1916 






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Copyright, 1 9 1 6, by 
Pierre Lorillard 



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DEC II 1916'^ 



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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I The Revival of Racing at Jerome Park 3 

II Racing, 1 873-1 877 10 

III The Race for the Championship ... 20 

IV Racing, 1878 26 

V The Campaign in England, 1879-1882 . 29 

VI Winning the Derby and St. Leger . . 40 

VII The Rancocas Stud 55 

VIII Racing, 1 879-1 882 ^^ 

IX A Visit to Rancocas 7^ 

X "The Mothers OF the Cherry Jacket" . 88 

XI Racing, 1883 97 

XII Racing, 1884 iio 

xiii Racing, 1885 120 

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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

XIV The Sales, 1886 134 

XV The Return to Racing, 1889-1895 . . 139 

XVI The Second Campaign in England, 

1896-1901 147 

XVII The Return TO America, I 899-1900 . 152 

XVIII Conclusion 155 



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PREFACE 

Most of the racing stones I have read had more to do 
with showing how some otherwise uninteresting person, 
who lived upon the precarious product of his cunning, 
had performed a great coup in the betting, and often 
by methods somewhat irregular, to say the least. The 
merits of the great race-horses seem of secondary im- 
portance. The leading turfmen and legislators are 
ignored to show the acuteness of some individual whose 
only title to distinction is his recklessness with money he 
never earned. 

Whoever expects to find this a volume of that de- 
scription will be disappointed. Betting will be treated 
as an incident of racing — not as its object. The great 
races and the great race-horses, the leading owners, 
trainers, and jockeys of the past forty years afford 
ample material of general interest with which to fill a 
volume without going into the details of their betting, 
which is a personal matter and concerns them alone. 

The object of this volume is to record the career of 



PREFACE 

the late Mr. Pierre Lorlllard as a turfman. His career 
was one of the most Important in the history of Ameri- 
can racing and one for which all devotees of racing 
have reason to be thankful, as it was the success of 
his stable in England with Parole and Iroquois that 
aroused the first real interest of Americans In racing, 
an Interest that penetrated the country from coast to 
coast. 

In dealing with Mr. Lorillard's career, I have been 
compelled to maintain a chronological order which is 
unfortunate in that it prevented my having a more con- 
fidential chat with my readers. I should have preferred 
taking the subjects offhand In a gossipy style, as an 
enumeration of races won and lost is apt to prove 
tedious. The conversations recorded are from memo- 
randa made at the time, of which I have more than 
enough to fill many volumes. 

W. S. VOSBURGH. 
January 20, 191 5. 



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CHAPTER I 

THE REVIVAL OF RACING AT 
JEROME PARK 

Think when we talk of horses, that you see them 
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth. 

Henry V , Prologue. 

WITH the revival of racing In the East, following 
the close of the Civil W^ar, Jerome Park be- 
came at once the headquarters of sport and the Mecca 
of fashion. A race day furnished a brilliant spectacle 
as the gay four-In-hands swung through Central Park, 
thence to Jerome Avenue, and along the 

^ , . lilac-bordered lane to the "Members' Gate" 

(jathering 

In stately procession and magnificence of 
equipage which, according to the newspapers of the 
time, "Illustrated the triumph of civilization." 

At the foot of the Club-house "Bluff" the drags were 
"parked," the horses unhitched, and refreshments 
served on the drags from which New York's fairest 
daughters viewed the racing. There was visiting from 
drag to drag, as on an evening at the opera among the 
boxes. Then, before the principal race of the day, the 

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ladles and gentlemen would descend from rhe club- 
house, down the hill, through the fir-grove, and across 
the course to the Members' Stand. The 

Fashton at ^^^^ citizens of the metropolis and their 
the Races 

families, governors of states, and even ex- 
President Fillmore, supported racing by their presence, 
and all was gentle and eminently well-bred. 

The grand stand was double-tiered and divided Into 
three sections, the centre one being for members and 
their families. The great gates of the park were of 
iron and a pleasant sporting feature were large medal- 
lions of horses galloping, with jockeys up, in the colors 
of Mr. Belmont, Mr. Jerome, Mr. Cameron, Mr. 
Francis Morris, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Lewis 
G. Morris and Mr. Watson. 

There were few more agreeable places than the club- 
house at Jerome Park. Apart from Its architectural 
beauty and charming surroundings, there was some- 
thing baronial to its interior; and while the fir-crowned 
eminence on which It stood was hardly a "heaven-kiss- 
ing hill," it was something of an Olympian abode. Its 
saloons. Its cheerful halls, Its spacious ball- 
TT room where melody so often echoed, and 

which, as the door of the south wing opened, 
burst upon the view with Its great quaint old Louis XIV 
fireplace and arm-chairs, casting a grey light of an- 
tiquity upon the scene— all these contributed to the 
senses of comfort and pleasure. 

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The array of racing "cracks" that looked down from 
the walls formed an artistic treat to the racing enthu- 
siast and might cause him to paraphrase Mr. Pope's 
lines on Mr. Addison's dialogue of "The Medals" — 

Or in fair series laurelled "cracks" be shown — 
A Glencoe here, and there a Lexington. 

For Lexington was there — from the brush of Troye; 

while Kentucky, American Eclipse, Fashion, Lecompte, 

and others of the corps d' elite of America found places. 

From Sartorlous' representation of Eclipse to the last 

decade of Derby and St. Leger winners, were grouped 

the most celebrated horses that have won 

^ J, ^ fame over an English race-course. Fllho da 
{jallery ^ ° 

Puta, big and robust, seems thirsting for an- 
other shy at Sir Joshua, and Emillus "in flesh" shows 
little of the stag-like neck old Ben Marshall gives him 
"in condition." Margrave and the hollow-backed 
Glencoe and the dainty Priam are there — magic names 
to American horsemen — while Flying Dutchman in the 
"tartan," and Voltigeur, whose distended nostrils and 
outstretched "flag" tell of "pace-complaint," are also 
there to remind us of "The Great Match at York." 
Newmlnster, dainty and deerlike; Stockwell, of the 
robust model; West Australian, lengthy and elegant; 
Blair Athol's blaze face. Blink Bonny's bobtail, and 
Teddlngton of the calf-knees, were all there to demon- 
strate the "character" Harry Hall gave to his pictures. 



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But none are more attractive than the series entitled 
"The British Stud," by Herring, which decorate the 
upper hall. Pantaloon, the paragon of beauty, is woo- 
ing Languish to the alliance which brought an Oaks 
winner in Ghuznee; and Camel of the massive quarters 
looks happy in Banter's love, the fruit of which in 
Touchstone has stamped itself upon the 

The Bntish brightest pages of the blood-horse peerage. 
dtua ^ 

Muley Moloch whispers soft nothmgs to 

Rebecca, which blossomed in Alice Hawthorne and 
bloomed anew in Thormanby; while in a wooded ravine 
through which a crystal stream is sparkling, Touch- 
stone's truant nymph. Beeswing, is meeting Sir Hercu- 
les' advances from the opposite bank, somewhat as 
Helen met those of Paris in the absence of Menelaus, 
according to Offenbach's version of the "tale of Troy 
divine" — 

Un inari sage est en voyage. 

On all days of the year, a good dinner could be had 
at the club-house, and members made it a frequent 
lounge. Balls and suppers were given. In the winter 
sleighing parties of members (of which there were 
fourteen hundred) made it a rendezvous. Each of the 
life members (of which there were fifty) had his pri- 
vate stable inscribed with his name, where, upon his ar- 
rival, his vehicle was housed and his horses cared for. 
After the autumn meetings, the members held pigeon 

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shooting contests In the large meadow to the south of 
the course; and there it was that Mr. 

0, igeon- T^j^gg Gordon Bennett inaugurated polo 
Shooting, and ... t i • 7 ; 

Skating ^^ America. In the wmter a chalet was 

built near a large pond half a mile dis- 
tant, where skating parties enjoyed their sport. 

Preliminary to a race-meeting, there was a "Match 
Day" when the members raced their horses in match 
races — in some cases for as much as $5000 a side. 
Match races were also run at various times of the year. 
Amateur riding among the members was a feature, not 
only in match races, but in sweepstakes; the 
j^-j. Members' Cup, "horses to be ridden by mem- 

bers of the club," being a fixture of both 
spring and autumn meetings and such riders as Mr. 
Wetmore, Mr. Hargous, Mr. Hecksher, Mr. Law- 
rence, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. De Hauteville rode in such 
races. But Mr. Carroll Livingston was the "crack" 
gentleman-rider, and it was generally considered that 
he could ride with any professional jockey on even 
terms. 

Sleeping accommodations were plentiful at the club- 
house, and it became the custom for owners of racing 
stables to take a party of friends to dinner, stop over- 
night, and be up with the early morning to witness the 
gallops. When the dew was still on the grass, many a 
promising colt has had "a leading question" asked him 
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for the Juvenile or the Nursery. Then a regiment of 
sheeted racers appeared, walking in In- 

The Morning ^j^^ ^j^^ ^j^^j^ "banged" tails swinging 

(jallops 

gracefully from side to side, and the 

morning work was on. Indeed, the "morning gallops" 

became almost as popular as the races. There was not 

the display of equipage, the crash of the band, or the 

crowd, or the betting. Nor was there the glamor of 

the silken jackets at the post, looking like a tulip-bed in 

its blaze of color, but there was the true spirit of racing 

in the people who gathered to watch the preparation of 

the candidates for the Belmont and the Juvenile. 

There was a "racing spirit" at Jerome Park — "a 

smell of real sport." Horses came to the post with 

their tails squared ( "banged" ) , their manes plaited and 

tied with ribbons of the stables' colors. They looked 

like race-horses, as race-horses should look — like a girl 

dressed for a ball. Indeed, all our race-horses' tails 

were "banged" up to 1893. Since then, our horses have 

gone to the post with long tails, looking like a 

c . ^«^ lot of coach-horses. There was no such thing 
dptrit ^ .... . 

as stewards perverting their judicial functions 

and playing police-detective in order to attract attention 

to themselves and gain a reputation for official activity. 

There was little of that constant hunting for newspaper 

notoriety, and few "press agents." 

In short, there was an atmosphere of real sport at 

these Jerome Park gatherings. They had not reached 

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the sporting point of referring to days or weeks as 
those of a great race, or to years as those of a 
great race-horse— there was no "Belmont Day," 
or "Kingfisher's year" — they had not got that far 
yet. But they were coming to it. Between the races, 
gentlemen met on the quarter stretch in earnest and 
often intense discussions on the topics of the hour; and 
so intense that, sometimes, each would hold the other 
by the sleeve, and pound each other's shoulder in dis- 
putes over the stamina of the Eclipse colts or the rela- 
tive stud merits of Lexington and Leamington. 

It was the influence of such surroundings as these that 
attracted, then interested Mr. Pierre Lorillard in rac- 
ing, and finally brought him within the fold of Ameri- 
can turfmen, among whom for the following thirty 
years he was one of the most conspicuous. 



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CHAPTER II 
RACING, 1873-1877 

The "Silks and the Satins" 

Most famed on the track — 
To wear them all jockeys aspire — 

The jacket of Withers, 
Of shimmering "Black"; 

The "Red and Blue" banner of Dwyer; 
The "Maroon with Red Sash," 

The "White with Blue Spots," 
Of Belmont and Keene share in glory; 

Haggin's "Orange and Blue," 
Cassatt's "Tricolor," too, 

Are famous in deed and in story. 

But whatever the hue — 

Orange, green, red, or blue — 
With the lads of the pigskin, so merry. 

There 's no colors named. 
No jacket more famed. 

Than the Lorillard jacket of "Cherry." 

Racing Song of the "Eighties. 



1873 

SAXON was the colt which had the distinction of 
introducing Mr. Lorlllard's colors — and the colors, 
by the way, were "scarlet, with blue cap," as the since 

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famous ^'cherry and black" were not adopted until a year 
later. The occasion was at Monmouth Park, N. J., 
July lo, 1873, where for the July Stakes for two-year- 
olds Saxon ran unplaced to Mr. Belmont's King Ama- 
deus. For the August Stakes, July 21, Saxon was suc- 
cessful, beating three others. Including Vandallte, a 
since famous mare. Then at Jerome Park In October 
Saxon ran unplaced to Rutherford for the Nursery 
Stakes, and closed the season by finishing second to 
Weathercock for the Central Stakes at Baltimore. Mr. 
Lorlllard had only one other starter that season, a 
three-year-old colt called Free Lance, by Kentucky, 
which ran unplaced at Jerome Park. 

1874 

Saxon was a whole-colored brown colt bred In England 
by Sir Joseph Hawley, whose colors, ''cherry jacket with 
black cap," had been carried to the front In 
four Derbys— those of Teddlngton, Beads- 
man, Musjid and Blue Gown. As Mr. Lorlllard had 
purchased a lot of Sir Joseph's stock, the Lorlllard 
horses appeared In 1874 under the Hawley colors, 
"cherry, black cap," to which was added a "gold tas- 
sel." At Baltimore, Saxon finished unplaced for the 
Preakness Stakes, but for the Belmont Stakes at Jerome 
Park he fairly outran himself, running on the outside all 
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winning by a neck with such colts behind him as Grin- 
stead, Aaron Penington, Elkhorn, Brigand, Reform, 
Steel Eyes, and Rutherford. Many said "it 

Wmning ^^^ riding that won," and certainly 

the Belmont ^ 

George Barbee that day rode the greatest 

finish of his career. Still, Saxon must have been a pretty 
good colt, for he ran second to Aaron Penington for 
the Jersey Derby, and defeated Rutherford and Re- 
form; but one more effort, for the Ocean Stakes, closed 
his career. 

George Barbee was the principal jockey and Mr. 

Pryor the trainer for the stable that year. Barbee was 

born In England In 1854, and in 1865 was apprenticed 

to Tom Jennings, Sr., trainer for Count La 

, T *, Grange. Barbee was exercise lad of the fa- 
the Jockey ^ 

mous French horse Gladiateur when he had 
a complaining leg, and Barbee's light weight rendered 
him available. Barbee came to America in 1872 to 
ride for Mr. Chamberlain, and rode Brennus for the 
Belmont Stakes that year. He soon had a large prac- 
tice, and In 1874 won 19 out of 58 races. In 1875 he 
won 12 out of 38, and in 1877 he won 28 out of 70 
races. At this time Barbee was a perfect man-model 
of the smaller type, tremendously muscular, and his 
whipping was very severe. Springbok, the Belmont 
winner of 1873, was so savage that jockeys were afraid 
to ride him; but Barbee hit him with the whip and it 
tamed him. The whipping he gave Sachem In that 



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colt's match with Onondaga In 1881 was such that 
Sachem never forgot It and turned coward. William 
Pryor, the trainer, was a son of Mr. J. B. Pryor, who 
trained Lexington, but had lived several years In Eu- 
rope assisting his father when the latter trained for 
Mr. Ten Broeck and later for Baron Shickler In 
France. 

To have won the Belmont Stakes In the second year 
of his career on the turf was flattering, and Saxon's 
early decline did not discourage Mr. Lorlllard. Like 
Commodore Perry on Lake Erie, who, when 
"^ his flag-ship was disabled, hoisted his flag on an- 

other ship, Mr. Lorlllard was ready with a new cham- 
pion of the "cherry and black" at Saratoga when the 
bugle called to the post the candidates for the historic 
Travers Stakes. This was Attlla, a rather handsome 
dark bay or brown colt by Australian 
Dead Heat for ^^^^ Ultima by Lexington, which he 
the Travers: At- , i/-tvt /^i 1 ti 1 am 

tila and Acrobat Purchased of Mr. Charles Lloyd. Attila 

had finished third for the Nursery the 
year before, and had won both of his three-year-old 
engagements. It was a great gathering of "cracks" 
for the Travers— Acrobat, Steel Eyes, Stampede, Re- 
form, Brigand, Rutherford, Grinstead, Aaron Penlng- 
ton, and others, eleven In all. It resulted In a furious 
finish between four— Acrobat, Attlla, Brigand and Steel 
Eyes. There was great confusion over the result. 
Acrobat and Attlla had finished together on the outside 

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rail, while Steel Eyes and Brigand finished on the inside, 

and a majority of the people thought Steel Eyes had 

won. But "the Ayes had it," or rather Acro- 

, ^j. bat and Attila, for the judges announced it 

a dead-heat between them. Sparling was 

blamed for Acrobat's failure to win, and Hayward was 

called to ride Acrobat for the "run off," which Attila 

won. It was Attlla's last race, for, like Saxon, he fell 

lame; while Acrobat, despite his unsound feet, became 

the colt of the year. 

To have won the Belmont and Travers, the two clas- 
sic events of the turf, was glory enough; and so It 
proved, for the balance of the Lorillard stable per- 
formed Indifferently. Mr. Lorillard gave $3300 for 
Vaultreas, which never won a race, and $4000 for Vas- 
sal, a very fine colt by Vandal-Sadowa which had won 
In the West; but Vassal was beaten by Rhadamanthus 
in a sweepstakes of $1000 each at Saratoga. Mr. 
Lorillard had purchased of Mr. Welch for $1000 the 
colt James A., by Leamington-Maiden, and with this 
colt he defeated Mr. George Lorillard's Hyder AH and 
the famous Arlstides and others at Jerome Park. 
Thus in his second season's racing, Mr. Lorillard was 
seventh on the list of "Winning Owners" with $18,600, 
Col. McDanlel leading with $43,445. 

1875 

For the season of 1875, Mr. Lorillard had nearly forty 



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horses In training under William Brown, who had long 
trained the horses of Mr. Francis Morris of West- 
chester. He took over all Mr. Morris's 

ory orses ^wo-vear-olds, and in older horses he had 
m 1 raining •' 

Stanford and Persuader. The three-year- 
olds were James A., Vassal, Vernango, Lotto, Sangara, 
Vivian, Springlet, Tomahawk, and Echo. The two- 
year-olds Included Parole, Shirley, Atlas, Evasive, 
Cyril, Faithless, Merciless, Tigress, Bertram, Pera, 
Merlin, Barricade, Baronet, Bambino, Lord Carlisle, 
Alarlc, Durango, Demoiselle, and Malcolm. In the 
all-aged and three-year-old classes, the season was un- 
productive. Sangara started for the Belmont, but was 
unequal to the task his full brother, Saxon, had accom- 
plished the year before. "I cannot understand," said 

Mr. Lorlllard, 'Vhy Sangara should be so 
Relations" P^^^ ^ race-horse. You know he Is a full 

brother to Saxon." "Oh, that 's nothing," 
returned Mr. Tucker, "even the Vanderbllts have poor 
relations." Mr. Lorlllard purchased Searcher on the 
strength of his brilliant form In the West. He renamed 
him Leander and won several races, but they were of 
minor Importance. 

The Lorlllard two-year-olds more than avenged the 
failure of their elders in the stable. Faithless, the black 
filly by Leamington, purchased of Mr. Morris, began 
by winning the Juvenile, Thespian and Flash Stakes. 
And now appeared upon the scene the redoubtable 

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Parole, the future hero of two continents, the conqueror 
of Ten Broeck in America, and of Isonomy in 
^^^^ England. Parole won the July Stakes and 
August Stakes at Monmouth, and the Saratoga Stakes 
and Kentucky Stakes at Saratoga. Cyril won the Cen- 
tral Stakes at Baltimore. These, with the other win- 
nings of the stable, placed Mr. Lorillard fourth in the 
list of "Winning Owners" for 1875, with $18,580; 
Mr. H. P. McGrath leading, with $35,030; Col. Mc- 
Daniel second, with $23,565; Mr. Belmont third, with 
$20,015. 

1876 

"The Centennial year" was born bright with promise 
for Mr. Lorillard's "cherry" jacket. Parole's expedi- 
tion to Louisville in quest of the Kentucky Derby was a 
disastrous beginning; but the brown gelding more than 
made amends, winning the Excelsior and Sequel Stakes 
at Saratoga and the All-Aged Stakes at Jerome Park, 

in which race he seemed to run faster 
Parole Wins the ^1 , tt- 

AHA d St k than we ever saw a horse run. His 

brother, James A., won the Inaugural 
Stakes at Philadelphia. Idalia won the Juvenile and 
Hopeful; Zoo Zoo won the July, Thespian and Flash 
Stakes; Bombast won the Champagne and Central; 
Shirley won the Preakness; Merciless won the Ala- 
bama; Pera won the Chesapeake, and Barricade won 
the Robins Stakes at Monmouth. 



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Of these, Zoo Zoo was the best, bar Parole. Zoo 
Zoo was a bay filly by Australian from Mazurka by 
Lexington— the same cross that produced Attila, Spring- 
bok, Wlldidle, Rutherford, Fellowcraft and 
Spendthrift. She was a filly that would have 
been prominent in any year; a deep bay, with good 
length below, bust short above, that is from the withers 
to the coupling, and with her legs so well under her that 
she was enabled to slip away from the post and set a 
pace that carried her fields off their feet. The season 
of 1876 found Mr. Lorillard second on the list of 
"Winning Owners," with $34,338, of which Parole 
won $8103, Zoo Zoo $4650, Merciless $3500, Idalia 
$3650. The leading owner was Hon. August Belmont, 
with $40,800, largely won by the filly Sultana. 

1877 

It was with an extensive stable that Mr. Lorillard be- 
gan the season of 1877 — nearly fifty horses, fifteen of 
which were three-year-olds and twenty-six two-year- 
olds. The stable did nothing great at Baltimore. 
Oleaster, a filly which Mr. Lorillard had taken In ex- 
change with his brother for Idalia, proved that he had 

made a bad bargain, as she was of little 
Bombast class; while Idalia was one of the best of the 
jj^. , year. They did better at Jerome Park, where 

Bombast won the Withers Stakes, and at 
Monmouth he won both the Ocean and the Robins 

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Stakes. Zoo Zoo had a great season winning the Mary- 
land, Sequel, Monmouth Oaks, West End and Harding 
Stakes. 

For the Belmont Stakes, a great field came to the 
post. Rifle, a colt belonging to Mr. Galway, was 
made favorite purely on the strength of phenomenal 
trials. Mr. William Astor started Baden Baden (the 
Kentucky Derby winner), which he had just purchased. 
Mr. Lorlllard started Basil, who finished "nowhere," 
but he had met so much Interference that he had no 
chance. The winner turned up In Mr. Clabaugh's 
Cloverbrook, a big lathering chestnut with white face 
and legs. He was a son of Vauxhall, and a fine natural 
racer; but had a trick of bolting, as his sire 

^.^ f^', had before him. The result of the Belmont 

LLoyerbrook 

Match ^^^ ^ot considered a true one, and Mr. 

Lorlllard offered to match Basil against the 
winner. It was accepted; a match of $5000 a side was 
made for a race of a mile and a quarter. Cloverbrook 
was favorite, and led for half the distance, then bolted, 
as he had a habit of doing, and Basil won by ten lengths. 
Basil was a gigantic gelding by Melbourne, Jr., from 
Nellie Grey by Lexington. He had a fiddle head, a 
long lean neck, a long back and stood high on the leg— 
an awkward customer. But he could gallop; for, al- 
though Baden Baden defeated him for the Jersey 
Derby and Travers, he won the Kenner, although it 
was one of the worst starts In the history of racing. 



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Baden Baden being left at the post, and broke down in 
his heroic efforts to reach the front. Besides the Ken- 
ner, Basil won the Jerome and Annual Stakes. Barri- 
cade was a useful horse, winning several races, including 
the Members' Cup, ridden by Mr. Frank Grey Gris- 
wold, one of the best amateur riders of the period. 
Parole was the mainstay of the stable, winning the 
Woodburn Stakes, 2^ miles; Maturity Stakes, 3 miles; 
and the Special Stakes at Baltimore, beating Ten 
Broeck and Tom Ochiltree. 



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CHAPTER III 
THE RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP 

At Baltimore 't was, in the autumn late. 

'Tarole and Ten Broeck" were on every lip, 
When the East and the West their issues joined 
In the final race for the championship 

T was Ten Broeck led, three lengths ahead; 

With Ochiltree second, they swept past the stand; 
For two miles they speed. Ten Broeck in the lead, 

Parole in the rear, but running in hand. 

The pace becomes fast, Tom Ochiltree 's last; 

They straighten for home at the three-quarter pole, 
As the stand fairly shook with "Come on, Ten Broeck!" 

Then we hear a shrill cry of "Look at Parole!" 

There rises a cheer as he steals from the rear. 

Now he 's closing the gap, as the cheering proceeds, 
"Now he 's at Ten Broeck's side" — they race stride for stride 
"Now he 's gaining" — "he 's closing" — "by heaven, he leads!" 

From the head of the stretch, to the field, to the stand, 
'Mid tossing of hats, roll the deafening cheers; 
"Ten Broeck 's beaten," they cry, as up goes Walker's whip — 
Parole gallops home gaily pricking his ears. 

Oh, was n't he "cockey," that Lorillard jockey. 

As he rode back to scale, to the judge raised his whip. 
"Weight 's correct," said the clerk. "All right," from the stewards. 
Parole wins the race for the championship. 

Parole, Ten Broeck and Tom Ochiltree. 



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TEN BROECK had been proclaimed "the horse of 
the century" during 1876 and 1877. As a four- 
year-old in 1876, he had won all his races except the 
one with Aristides, and his reputation became so great 
that owners in the West refused to start horses against 

him. He was thereupon given a four-mile 

Ten Broeck • ^ t- 11 r..' i.* / t/ \ 

race agamst i^ellowcrart s time (7.19/4) 

and accomplished it in "J.isH- I^ ^^77 he had an- 
other career of triumphs in the West, winning all his 
races, and races against time, in which he established a 
record of 1.39^ for a mile, 3.27J4 for two miles, and 
5.2634 for three miles. All Ten Broeck's races had 
been in the West, and now efforts were made to bring 
him East. His owner, Mr. Harper, was not an am- 
bitious man. He was content to worship his idol for 
what he had accomplished, but at last he yielded, and 
agreed to send Ten Broeck to the October meeting at 
Baltimore, where a valuable premium was promised. 

Learning that Ten Broeck would be at Baltimore, 

Mr. Lorillard offered to match Parole against Ten 

Broeck to run two miles or two miles and a half for 

$5000 a side. There was no response ; 

The Race for the thereupon the Club offered a sweep- 
Lnamptonsnip 

stakes, $500 each, the club to add 

$1000; two miles and a half. Ten Broeck, Tom 

Ochiltree and Parole were named. The race was run 

Wednesday, October 24, and aroused a greater interest 

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throughout the country than any race since the Longfel- 
low-Harry Bassett races of 1872. It was a sectional 
race, the East versus the West — "a race for the cham- 
pionship," so people called It, and they came from the 
most distant points to witness it. Ten Broeck was an 
overwhelming favorite, his great record-breaking feats 
having made a powerful impression. 

Tom Ochiltree was the first to appear, ridden by 
Barbee. Then came Barrett in the "cherry and black" 
on Parole. They were received with applause, but 
when Ten Broeck came out with Walker In the saddle, 
the applause was greater. He was a magnificent speci- 
men of the thoroughbred, while Parole 

orses looked as rough as a bear and as lean as a 
the Post" I ^ .7 J . 

snake. Amid suppressed excitement the 

horses started on their eventful journey, Ten Broeck 
leading by three lengths, Ochiltree second, Parole trail- 
ing. The half mile was slow, i.ooj^. Then Walker 
was signalled to "go on," and, as Ochiltree did the same, 
the pace sharpened, and the crowd began shouting. At 
the end of the mile and a half, they passed the stand 
amid cheering that might have been heard in Monu- 
ment Square, the Eastern men cheering, the Western 
followers of Ten Broeck yelling like demons. It was 
cheers answering cheers, like the noise of contending 
armies. Suddenly, as they turned toward the last quar- 
ter, there arose a cry of "Look at Parole!" Barrett 
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up like a rocket and closed on the leaders. Then there 
was a moment of quiet as the cheering ceased. The 
crowd was so deep It was difficult to see the horses, but 
the next Instant a roar Is heard at the head of the 
stretch. Nearer and nearer It comes, and Is taken up 
all along the line to the stand. Then we see the 
''cherry" jacket leading, and amid a scene baffling de- 
scription, Parole drew away and won by five lengths. 

When Parole galloped past the post, the scene might 

have been compared to pandemonium. During the race 

there had been a fusillade of cheering. Now a spirit of 

quiet amazement followed. The Ken- 

Parole Defeats ^ucklans said Ten Broeck "could n't have 
1 en Broeck 

been himself, and pomted to the fact 

that he scoured badly at the finish. Yet he came out 
three days later and won the Bowie Stakes, four mile 
heats. The talent received a fearful blow, many re- 
turning home "dead broke." They could not realize 
how Ten Broeck could be beaten — and by Parole, who 
had been twice beaten by Tom Ochiltree a fortnight 
previous at Jerome Park. The fact as to Parole was 
that when he was defeated at Jerome Park, Mr. Lorll- 
lard had Dr. Cattanach examine him and, finding he 
had cracked heels, treated them, and the gelding Im- 
proved Immediately. The track was soft and damp 
and this favored Parole. But "the time was slow" — 
4.37^ — ^nd the Kentucklans claimed Ten Broeck was 
"not himself." Mr. Lorlllard offered to run the race 

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over again at Jerome Park November 6, and both 
horses were brought north. In his trial before the race, 
however, Ten Broeck did not please Mr. Harper, who 
"scratched" him, and Parole walked over. Possibly, 
the four mile heats at Baltimore had dulled Ten 
Broeck's speed, otherwise he looked and acted well 
enough when he was brought out and exhibited before 
the stand. 

Baltimore, Oct. 24, 1877. Grand Sweepstakes for all ages. 
$500 each, P.P., the club to add $1000; two miles and a half. 

P. Lorillard's br. g. Parole, 4 yrs., by Leamington- 
Maiden, 105 lbs. (Barrett) i 

F. B. Harper's b. h. Ten Broeck, 5 yrs., by Phaeton- 
Fanny Holton, 114 lbs. (Walker) 2 

G. L. Lorillard's b. h. Tom Ochiltree, 5 yrs., by Lexing- 
ton-Katona, 114 lbs. (Barbee) 3 

Time: 4-37M- 
Thus ended the great meeting of Parole and Ten 
Broeck for the championship. But the Western men 
were not convinced. There was still talk of another 
race. A note was sent to Mr. Lorillard which brought 
out the following reply : 

"I have not challenged Ten Broeck, but I am willing 

to run Parole against him for $25,000 a side, $10,000 

forfeit, at Saratoga, two and a half miles, Western 

weights, dry track, and I will allow Ten 

Mr^ Lorillard's g^oeck $cooo for expenses, if the race Is 
"Den . 

run. I will also run from my Rancocas 

stable a two-year-old at ^ mile, a three-year-old at 



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134 miles, a four-year-old at 2^ miles, and a five-year- 
old at 3 miles against Western horses of the same ages, 
excepting that I will run my five-year-old against a 
horse five years old or older. The four races to be 
run at Jerome Park or Saratoga for $2500 a side, 
each race $1000 forfeit, horses to be named at the post. 
This offer means that I am willing to run my stable 
against the pick of the entire West." 

George Evans and William Barrett were the stable's 

jockeys in 1877. Evans had ridden light-weights in the 

stable of Mr. Merry, in England, when Dundee, 

Marksman, and Belladrum were carrying 

e on ar ^^^ yellow jacket; and came to America 
Jockeys . . . 

m 1873 to ride for Mr. Belmont. He 

rode with great success for many years. Barrett was 
a boy whom Mr. Brown, the trainer, picked up in New 
York; but he learned quickly, and rode Parole In many 
races. For so youthful a jockey he had great patience, 
and could ride a waiting race to perfection. This suited 
Parole, and the pair made a strong combination. Bar- 
rett's attitude In the saddle was not so exaggerated an 
example of the "monkey seat," as the English call the 
more modern American style. His "set-to" In a finish 
was not especially vigorous, but his overhand whipping, 
for one so apparently delicate, was very effective. 



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CHAPTER IV 
RACING, 1878 

Here 's to Lexington's latest — the last of his breed, 
From forehead to fetlock, true son of his sire; 

Fit to run for a crown, at a kingdom's last need, 
Compact of the whirlwind, and Heaven's own fire. 

UNCAS, foaled In 1876, was one of the last of the 
Lexingtons, his dam Coral by Vandal, his 
grandam the Imported mare Calrngorme by Cother- 
stone. He was a marked colt from the day of his 
birth. Mr. W^Ithers made a trip to Kentucky In '77 
with the express purpose of attending the 

e as of ^^Yq of the Woodburn yearlings and buy- 
the Lexingtons . . . . . 

mg him, as he had a high opinion of his 

elder brother Wanderer. But his driver took the wrong 

road, and when he arrived the colt had been sold to 

Mr. Lorlllard for $3100; and when Mr. Brown, the 

Rancocas trainer, met Barney Riley after the trial of 

the yearlings he remarked, "Barney, you Ve seen some 

pretty fast colts tried at Rancocas, but they 've just 

tried one that beat anything ever done there." 

In color Uncas was a bay with a star and right fore- 

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foot white. He rather lacked length and stood 15.2, 
with good shoulders, although rather heavy at the 
points. There was a lack of length from his elbows to 
his coupling, but he had a "picture head," a fine round- 
ness of rib In Its curve from the spine, powerful 
quarters and gasklns, unusual depth of brisket, 
excellent feet and legs. But he was very highly organ- 
ized, very excitable, and would not always try. He won 
the Kentucky Stakes at Saratoga In such brilliant fash- 
ion that at the end of the season he was sent to England. 
The bare expanse of Newmarket seemed to frighten 
him. He delayed the start for the Two Thousand 
Guineas and was brought home the next season and 
raced with success. He took a violent dislike to Bar- 
bee after the jockey had given him "a dose of whale- 
bone," and at the sound of Barbee's voice would become 
furious. It was not until they put Shauer up that he 
would run kindly, his Grand National Handicap being 
a fine exhibit of gameness, he beating Monitor and 
Firenzi a nose In a desperate finish. Uncas followed in 
the footsteps of his brother Wanderer as a winner of 
the Westchester Cup on his return from England. But 
while highly excitable, he was nothing to Wanderer, 
who was a "stall walker" and could be heard tramping 
In his box at all hours of the night. Mr. Withers never 
lost sight of Uncas and, when he retired In 1882, pur- 
chased him, saying, "If I could n't have him for racing, 
I can have him for a sire." In his first season at Brook- 



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dale he sired Laggard, and nothing ever gladdened the 

heart of "the old gentleman in black" so much as when 

Laggard won the Omnibus Stakes of '87, defeating 

Hanover and Firenzi. 

Parole made a clean sweep of the Cup races of 1878, 

winning the Baltimore, Monmouth and Saratoga Cups, 

and in October was shipped to England with Duke of 

Magenta, which Mr. Lorillard had pur- 

Parole Wins chased of his brother. Perfection won the 
the Cups ^ no, o IT 

Doswell Stakes. Spartan won the Jersey 

Derby, beating Duke of Magenta, and a match in 
which he defeated Dwyer Brothers' Bramble, $2500 a 
side. Garrick won the Manhattan Handicap, Board- 
man won the Central and Barnum's Hotel Stakes, Bay- 
ard won the Pimlico Stakes, Judith won the Chesapeake 
Stakes. Spartan was a very highly tried colt 
Spartan ^^ Lexington from Lulu Horton by Albion, 
but hit himself at work and his leg, filling, rendered him 
useless soon after he had defeated Bramble. Garrick, 
by Lexington from Inverness by Macaroni, was a very 
attractive colt, a neat brown, but rather on the small 
side. Boardman was a bay by Bonnie Scot- 
oar m n \^^^ from Woodbine by Lexington, and was 
a very smoothly turned one, higher on the leg than most 
Bonnie Scotlands and rather narrow for one of that 
tribe, but he lacked the toughness of the family. The 
stable's winnings for 1878 amounted to $32,905. 



CHAPTER V 
THE CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND, 1 879-1 882 

I thought he was expounding the law and the prophets, but, on 
drawing a little nearer, I found that he was warmly expatiating 
upon the merits of a brown horse. — Bracebridge Hall. 

1879 

IT was on the 19th of October, 1878, that the Loril- 
lard horses sailed from New York for England by 
the ship England of the National Line. The lot con- 
sisted of Parole, Uncas, Friar, Boreas, Cherokee, Pap- 
poose, Nereid and Geraldine, the last six yearlings. On 
November 9, Duke of Magenta, the champion three- 
year-old of the year, followed them on the ship Egypt, 
with William Brown, the trainer, and Hughes, Fisher 
and Barrett, the jockeys. But, as in the case 

J^ /, of Falsetto later, Duke of Magenta was 
tngland . ° . 

destined never to carry the cherry jacket. 
The colt contracted a violent influenza on the passage 
and never could be trained. He was brought home the 
following September in company with Uncas. 

If the English judged the "American type" by Pa- 
role and Duke of Magenta, they must have been sorely 

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puzzled. Parole was very long and narrow; the Duke 
was short and almost "cobby." Parole had a lean "var- 
minty" head; the Duke had a fine Roman head. Pa- 
role's neck (he was a gelding) was very light; the Duke 
was bull-necked. Parole was very deep In the brisket, 
but had light back ribs; the Duke was 
Parole and deeply ribbed back to the coupling. Parole 

" ^^^ had beautifully Inclined shoulders ; the Duke 

Magenta ^ / 

had well Inclined but heavy shoulders. Pa- 
role had fine quarters, but those of the Duke were mas- 
sive. Parole had a long, light stride, and, like long- 
striding horses, he was not a quick starter, requiring 
time to settle Into his stride; his long stride made It 
difficult for him to force the pace from the start— he 
won his races by lying away and coming with a burst of 
speed at the finish. The Duke was a short strlder; he 
raced all the way, a model of perpetual motion. 

"Why, here 's old Leamington, only not quite so big," 
exclaimed Tom Aldcroft, the old jockey, when he saw 
Parole being led Into Newmarket. Aldcroft had ridden 
Leamington In England In 1858, and felt a kindly Inter- 
est In his son. But the English critics were not at- 
tracted by Parole. On April 16, 1879, Parole started 
for the Newmarket Handicap, i^ miles, with 116 

lbs., and won by a length from Isonomy 
Parole De- / ^ yy^^^ x ^ ^^^ ^£ ^j^^ ^^^^ English horses 

feats Isonomy . 

of modern times. When he was sent to 

England, Mr. Lorlllard had no great expectations of 



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Parole. The gelding was six years old, and It was 
hardly expected he would retain his speed. It was 
thought that he would at least be useful as a trial horse 
for Duke of Magenta. 

Newmarket, April i6, 1879. Newmarket Handicap. 25 sovs. 
each, 10 forfeit; 400 added; i>^ miles; 39 subs. 

P. Lorillard's br. g. Parole, 6 yrs., by Leamington- 
Maiden, 116 lbs. (Morbey) I 

F. Gretton's b. c. Isonomy, 4 yrs., 124 lbs. (Goater) . 2 
Count La Grange's ch. m. Lina, 6 yrs., 106 lbs. (Morris) 3 
Lord Hartington's b. f. Rylstone, 5 yrs., 119 lbs. (Jef- 
frey) 

Sir J. D. Astley's b. h. Drumhead, 6 yrs., 100 lbs. 

(Brogden) ^ 

Lord FitzwiUiam's b. c. The Dean, 3 yrs., 78 lbs. 

(Greaves) 

Betting: 100 to 15 against Parole. 

Of course Parole's defeat of Isonomy created a sen- 
sation in England. English critics did not fancy "his 
light neck" or "his rough coat"-they said he was "a 
lazy horse." As Mr. Brown, his trainer, said, "I know 
he 's not the showy kind they like, but wait till they see 
him extended." On April 22 Parole started for the 
City and Suburban-the greatest of the English spring 
handicaps. Eighteen started. Parole with 
Parole Wins jj^ Jbs. was at 4 to I and with Fred Ar- 
the City and ^her in the saddle. He won in a common 
canter by a length from Ridotto. If the 
Newmarket Handicap had created a sensation, the City 

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and Suburban created a greater one. But the day fol- 
lowing (April 23), the old gelding came out again, this 
time for the Great Metropolitan, 2j4 miles. His vic- 
tory the day before had frightened off all opposition 
except Castlereagh. He had no lbs., Parole 124 lbs., 
and Parole won pulled double. 

Now It was "Brother Jonathan's wonderful race- 
horse." The Sporting Life said: "Light-necked, rough- 
coated, leggy and curby-hocked, Parole without his 
name and deeds would have been passed 

''Brother Jona- |3y^ 'Rough and ready' Is a good motto 

than's Wonder- r n r 1 j ^1 

/- / D / » lor men as well as tor horses, and the 
JUL Race-horse ^ _ ' 

Americans seem to have applied It. Yet 
there are people who say England Is a great nation. 
Over-education, pampering, free trade and the defeat 
of RIdotto are ruining the country, and the sooner we 
get back to home truths the better. Give us then the 
good old rough and ready business; do not let us be- 
lieve In 'fashion' In breeding so much as we have done, 
and so learn the lesson that 'a horse Is a horse.' " The 
Sporting Times said: "The three-year-old Uncas Is, we 
hear, within 21 lbs. of Parole, and on the Rowley Mile 
Is just two seconds behind him. He was tried 'by the 
clock' the other day, and pleased his trainer wonder- 
fully. Brown has made the Newmarket trainers stare. 
They see a flag dropped and look out for something 
great. All they behold Is 'a solitary horseman.' " 
But the sensation Parole's victories created In Eng- 

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land was as nothing to the sensation they caused here. 

The pubHc and press went wild over them, and even 

that element that had always dispar- 

Ejfect of Parole's ^ged Parole at home admitted "he was 

. a better horse than they had thought." 

America ^ •' ° 

The Impulse Parole's success gave to 
racing was enormous. People that had never attended 
races became Interested, the attendance at the races In- 
creased, new racing clubs were formed, among them the 
Coney Island Jockey Club and Brighton Beach Asso- 
ciation. Social clubs were named for Parole, there 
were Parole poolrooms. Parole saloons. Parole billiard 
parlors, and Parole baseball clubs. Mr. Lorlllard was 
given a dinner at which Mr. Jerome presided and 
speeches were made by Mr. Withers, Judge Monson, 
and Mr. Keene, while Mr. Belmont, confined to the 
house by an accident, sent Mr. Lorlllard a letter offer- 
ing as a toast: "The Lorlllard Stable In England: May 

the younger stable companions of Parole 

A Dinner to i i „ • r u i .. x.u • 

,. -. ... , show as clean a pair or heels to their 
Mr.Lonllard . ^ 

competitors on the English or French 
turf." During the evening, Mr. Lorlllard offered to 
bet one to four that he could name the sires of the first 
three colts In the race for the Belmont Stakes soon to 
be run at Jerome Park. The bet was taken around the 
table and $16,000 In various sums collected. Mr. 
Lorlllard named two Leamlngtons and one Australian. 
He also stated he had bought Parole's dam Maiden, 

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with her suckling brother to Parole, called Powhatan, 
for $10,000. 

The entire country from Maine to California, thence 
to the Gulf, rang with praises of the old gelding. 
Among them the following, by "some mute Inglorious 
Milton," appeared In one of the sporting newspapers: 

THE CITY AND SUBURBAN 

When, for the start, the flag it fell, 
''They 're off!" some fifty thousand yell; 
And soon there '11 be a tale to tell — 

So went Parole. 

Some eighteen started in the lot, 
And, though the pace was very hot, 
Straight to the front the Yankee shot — 

So went Parole. 

Although his company was good. 
The stranger wished it understood, 
To go in first he could and would — 

So went Parole. 

The mile was reached — no change occurred — 
And all, save one, were whipped and spurred ; 
But Archer's whip it never stirred — 

So went Parole. 

They *re in the straight — now comes the dash 
For English prestige and her cash; 
But see! they both have gone to smash — 

In goes Parole. 

May 7, Parole started for the Chester Cup, i^. 
miles, with 124 lbs., but was beaten, finishing fourth to 

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Reefer, 4 years, 98 lbs. ; Touchet, 5 years, 126 lbs. ; and 
Ridotto, 4 years, 106 lbs. Parole was favorite at 6 to 4 
on; 5 to 2 against Reefer. It was said Archer made 
his run with Parole too soon. However, the day fol- 
lowing. Parole, with 134 lbs., started for the Great 
Cheshire Stakes, and this time, lying well 

Parole Wins \^^^]^^ came with a rush at the finish and 
"With I2A. Lbs. 

won by three lengths, turning the tables 

on Reefer, who, with 118 lbs., was second. TheLondon 
Sportsman spoke of Parole's dash of speed as "some- 
thing electrical." The Sporting Life, explaining Reef- 
er's loss of the cup, said: "Nothing can be more con- 
clusive that something was wrong, than the frightful 
exhibition Parole made of his field the very next day. 
With the steadier of 9 st. 8 lbs. he smothered his horses 
and left them almost standing still." 

May 30, Parole, with 125 lbs. up, won the Epsom 
Gold Cup, I J4 miles. At Ascot he was beaten for the 
Ascot Stakes with 125 lbs., Ridotto, the winner, having 
109 lbs. For the Goodwood Cup he was 
PfroleWins ^^^^^^ v Isonomy. He was third for 
tfie Gold Cup AT t t • TT J- -1 

the Great Yorkshire Handicap, with 125 

lbs.; the winner, Dresden China, 48 lbs. He had 118 
lbs. in the Cesarewitch, which Chippendale, 103 lbs., 
won. For the Great Challenge Stakes, six furlongs. 
Parole, with 126 lbs., was unplaced to Rayon d'Or. 
After having been prepared for the Cesarewitch, which 
is over two miles, it was asking a lot of Parole to meet 

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the younger horse at six furlongs. Thus Parole won 
five races and $19,403. 

As to Mr. Lorlllard's other horses In 1879, Pappoose 
won the Spring Stakes at Newmarket and Geraldlne 
won the Levant Stakes at Goodwood. Pappoose was a 
full sister to Parole, and performed creditably, as she 
was placed In three races out of six; while Geraldlne 
(by Saxon-GIrl of the Period) was placed In three out 
of five. Uncas started for the Two Thousand Guineas, 
but he cut up sp badly that he was sent back to New 
York, having shown utter unwillingness to race over 
the turf courses of England. The stable's winnings In 
Its first season In England amounted to $26,503. 

Encouraged by Parole's success and an Increased 
fancy for the get of Leamington, In May, 1879, Mr. 
Lorlllard and his brother, Mr. George L. LorlUard, 
made with Mr. Welch of Chestnut Hill, Pa., an agree- 
ment to take his entire lot of Leamington yearlings. In 
the division "Mr. George" took the Megara filly (since 
known as Splnaway) ; the Lemonade colt, Saunterer; 
the Lady Motley colt. Blazes; the Medora colt, and the 

Mundane filly. Mr. Pierre Lorlllard 
Reinforcements ^^^y. ^^^ g^j, P^jj^^ ^jj ^^^ Maiden 
from America 

filly, the Nemesis filly, the Flash of Light- 
ning colt, the Mary Clark filly, the Delight colt, and 
the Maggie B. B. colt. The colt last named was des- 
tined to become famous as Iroquois. At the time, 
Iroquois was not as advanced as some of the others, 

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and Mr. Lorillard offered him to his brother for 
$7000. Nothing came of It, however, and the yearhngs 
reached Rancocas May 30, and early In the autumn, 
after having been broken, Iroquois was shipped to Eng- 
land with the yearlings Mohawk, Santee, Dakota, Pas- 
saic, Paw Paw, Seneca and Wyandotte. With them 
went the three-year-old Falsetto (by Enqulrer-Farfa- 
letta). It was said Falsetto ran one of the greatest 
trials ever run at Newmarket, but he became lame, and 
finding It Impossible to train him, he was sent home the 
following year and entered the stud In 1881. 

1880 

The victories of Parole In the spring of 1879 were not 
forgotten by reason of his defeats later that season. 
Neither he nor any horse In the stable ever escaped the 
handlcapper's attention after that. This was quite 

evident when the weights appeared for 
mights on the ^^^ • handicaps of 1880. For the 
American Morses t • 1 1 • t 

Lmcolnshire, Parole had top weight, 

126 lbs. For the Newmarket, Falsetto had 129 lbs.— 
top weight; Parole next, with 126 lbs. For the Inter- 
national, Parole had top weight, 130 lbs.; Falsetto, 
126 lbs. For the Prince of Wales Handicap, Parole 
had top weight, 144 lbs., being asked to concede a 
three-year-old ^2 ^^s. For the City and Suburban, 
Parole had top weight, 130 lbs.; Master Klldare, 128 
lbs.; Falsetto, 124 lbs. 

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Parole made his appearance In the Liverpool Cup, 

i^ miles, March 17, and with the top weight, 131 lbs., 

won by half a length from a field of nine. 

The Liverpool g^^ Archer, who rode the second horse. 
Cup 

Advance, lodged an objection to Parole 

on the ground of a "cross." The English rule (No. 

32) disqualified a horse crossing another, unless he had 

two clear lengths in the lead. The stew- 

T^^^ ^ f-r 1 ^^ds disqualified Parole and gave the race 
Disqualtfied 

to Advance, an aged horse with 116 lbs. 

So inconsequential was the "cross" considered that, 
while the case was pending, bookmakers laid 4 to i on 
Parole getting the race, while the London Referee 
bluntly said, "People remarked that it looked strange 
for such a right-away rider as Archer entering a pro- 
test when, for once, he gets done at his own game." 
Parole did not win again in England. He ran second 
for the Epsom Gold Cup and late in the summer was 
sent home to New York. 

Boreas was Mr. Lorillard's starter for the Derby 
and ran unplaced. Dakota, Seneca, and Sly Dance 
failed to win. Mistake, and Passaic, also, were not 
brilliant. Paw Paw, a sister to Parole, was a fine filly. 
She was second. for the Stanley Stakes, and won the 
Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood, but died soon after. 
Wallenstein, a son of Waverly, won the Newmarket 
Handicap which Parole had won the year before. 

But Iroquois, the brown two-year-old by Leamington- 



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Maggie B. B., made amends. He won the Newmarket 
Two-years-old Plate, was unplaced for the Woodcote, 
won the Two-years-old Stake at Epsom, was 
roquois unplaced for the New Stakes at Ascot, second 
for the July Stakes, won the Chesterfield Stakes, won 
the Levant Stakes, was second for the Findon, and un- 
placed for the Champagne. It was the race for the 
July Stakes that first attracted attention to Iroquois, for 
in that he ran second to the famous Bal Gal, beaten 
only a head with Thebais and other good ones behind 
him. It was then that Mr. Griswold says Matthew 
Dawson remarked to Mr. Puryear, who managed the 
Lorillard stable, that Bal Gal was the fleetest two-year- 
old he had ever trained, and any colt good 
MatthewDaw- enough to come within a head of beating 
rr ■ her, as Iroquois had in the July Stakes, was 
good enough to win the Derby. In the 
Chesterfield, Iroquois won by three lengths with Tris- 
tan and eight others behind him, while in the Levant he 
had defeated Isonomy's younger sister Isola Madre, 
and conceded weight to all the starters. The stable's 
record in England for 1880 was eight races won, and 
$22,500. 



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CHAPTER VI 
WINNING THE DERBY AND ST. LEGER 

How the Derby was founded, all full well know, 

Over a hundred years ago; 
But little 't was thought the event would grow 

In after years so weighty. 
By those who formed the company, gay, 

On that original Derby Day, 
When Diomed won on the fourth of May, 

In seventeen hundred and eighty. 

1881 

MISTAKE began the season of 1 8 8 1 for the Lorll- 
lard stable, finishing second for the Lincolnshire 
Handicap, with 100 lbs. to Buchanan, 4 years, 94 lbs.; 
and for the Newmarket Handicap he was also second, 
but he won the International Handicap, and was third 
for the Great Metropolitan. Wallenstein was second 
for the Liverpool Cup and won the Great Shropshire 
Handicap. Barrett was unable to win a race of any 
kind, and was sent home, landing in New York late in 
August and raced at Jerome Park soon after. 

On the 4th of May, the stable started Iroquois and 
Passaic for the Two Thousand Guineas, and so little 

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was thought of them that the odds were 50 to i. There 

was a story current that Passaic had 

- \A . ^ „ beaten Iroquois in a trial, but for the race 
*Hne Cjutneas -r. • 

Passaic went out and made the pace. 

Peregrine won the race, Iroquois finished second, while 

Passaic was beaten off. Two days later, Iroquois won 

the Newmarket Stakes, beating Lennoxlove, and May 7 

he walked over for the Burwell Stakes at Newmarket. 

The Derby was run June i. Peregrine was the favorite 

at 6 to 5, with Iroquois at 1 1 to 2, Geologist 13 to 2, 

St. Louis 12 to I. Fifteen started. The good race 

Iroquois had run for the Guineas, and the fact that 

Archer was to ride, made him a following, the London 

Cuckoo giving him as its "tip" in the following Hia- 

wathan verse : 

If you ask me what the chances 
For the winner and the places 
In the Derby stakes to-morrow, 
The great race of the palefaces, 
For the Riband Blue of Epsom, 
I would answer, I would tell you : 
Go to where the red man's river, 
Peopled close with bream and beaver, 
Rushes down from pine-clad mountains. 
Haunt of grizzly and of eagle. 
Where the Iroquois, the brownskin. 
Cuts the willows by the water 
For his traps, to catch the beaver; 
Where the Iroquois, the brownskin. 
Trims his plume of cherry feathers. 
Ravished from the dead flamingo. 
Sets them in his raven tresses. 
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Overhead sees in the heavens, 
Circling high and circling higher, 
Keen of eye and swift of pinion, 
Chief of birds and king of falcons, 
Peregrine, by far the noblest 
Of all birds that fly above us; 
Russet brown his dainty plumage; 
Ruddy red his beak and talons; 
But the Iroquois, the brownskin. 
Knows the secret how to tame him — 
How to make the falcon lower 
Ruddy head and russet plumage 
To the black and cherry colors 
That the brownskin bears so proudly; 
For he trims his arrows deftly, 
Does this swift and dexterous Archer, 
Does this hero of the pigskin, 
Hero of a thousand Derbys, 
And the brownskin learned his secret 
In the city by the river, 
In St. Louis, where the whiteface. 
Where Sir John,i the wobbler's patron, 
Mourns his dollars and his greenbacks 
Piled upon the scarlet colors, 
Piled upon the son of Hermit. 

The race for the Derby needs Httle description. 

Iroquois was first away, but Archer eased him, laid 

away, and coming at the right moment, won easily 

by half a length. The London Sporting 

roquots I j^^t commented: "Hats off to America! 
the Derby ' ^ 

Lorlllard, Iroquois, PIncus, Archer, I 

salute ye ! PIncus was said to be galloping his horses 

1 The "Sir John" alluded to above was Sir John Astley, who 
had backed Weston, "the wobbler," in his six-day pedestrian 
match with O'Leary. 

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to death, but Pincus in Iroquois has produced a colt 
capable of winning the greatest race in the world. That 
he had a sterling bit of stuff to work upon cannot be 
denied; neither can it be doubted that the Americans 
make up their minds to find out whether their horses 
can stand real hard work or not. They must either 'go' 
or 'crack.' Iroquois did not crack, he 'go'ed.' The 
two-mile gallops he was sent in training were also con- 
clusive that what latent stamina he had would be devel- 
oped. That Iroquois has developed into a stayer, the 
Derby proves. Peregrine failed to stay and St. Louis 
was beaten the moment it came to racing." 

Epsom, June i, 1881. The Derby Stakes for three-year-olds. 
50 sovs. each, h. f . ; i^ miles; 243 subs. 

P. Lorillard's br. c. Iroquois, by Leamington-Maggie 
B. B. (Archer) i 

R. W. Grosvenor's br. c. Peregrine, by Pero Gomez 
(Webb) 2 

Lord Rosebery's b. c. Town Moor, by Doncaster (Le- 
maire) 3 

Scobell, Cumberland, Voluptuary, Tristan, Limestone, Geol- 
ogist, Fortissimo, CuIIoden, Don Fulano, Fortune's Favorite, 
St. Louis and Marshal Macdonald ran unplaced. 

When the news reached New York shortly after 1 1 

A.M., it produced the wildest hilarity. 

^^f %! ^ At the hotels men slapped each other on 
Derby Victory 

inNewYork ^"^^ back, and drank the health of the 

"first American horse to win the Derby." 

Others flocked to familiar rendezvous to meet their 

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sporting friends; the evening newspapers printed in 
mammoth head-Hnes, "Another American Victory." It 
was race day at Jerome Park, and shortly before noon 
Judge Monson, assuming the role of herald, rushed 
from stable to stable shouting, "Iroquois has won the 
Derby! Iroquois has won the Derby!" The Juvenile 
Stakes was run that day, and Gerald, destined to be 
Iroquois's successor as a Lorillard starter for the 

Derby of the next year, finished second to 
Rejoicings— Onondaga. Dave Clark, who held the 
tb T ha k Starter's advance flag, had It decorated 

with the name of Iroquois and a huge 
tomahawk. That day, and far Into the evening, re- 
porters besieged Mr. Lorillard's residence for an inter- 
view, but he eluded them. At the theatres, allusions 
made by the actors to the brown hero of Epsom evoked 
thunders of applause. At the Bijou they were singing 
the "Mascotte." When, In the opera, Pippo asked 
Prince Lorenzo, "Do you want the earth?" the latter 
replied, "No; I want Iroquois," and the house fairly 
rose at him. 

In England the result of the Derby was received 
differently. Some declined to consider Iroquois an 
American colt, as he was the son of an English sire. 
Others solaced themselves by concluding that it was "an 
off year" for three-year-olds. We took occasion to 
write Mr. PIncus a congratulatory letter and received 
the following reply : 

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The Hermitage, Newmarket, 

June 30, 1 88 1. 
Dear Mr. Vosburgh: Yours of the nth duly re- 
ceived; thanks for friendly expressions. We would 
have won a ton [on Derby] if we had left Barrett in 
America, he being backed several weeks before, and not 
being a four-miler, could n't think of it. Remember me 
to all at home. Say they are all mistaken as to the trial 
of Iroquois and Passaic, or the former making the run- 
ning for the latter in the Guineas, but vice versa. 

Yours very truly, 

J. PiNCUS. 

At Ascot, June 14, Iroquois, ridden by Archer, car- 
ried 131 lbs. for the Prince of Wales Stakes and won, 
beating Geologist and five others. Two days later he 
won the St. James's Palace Stakes, beat- 

Iroquois Wins • t t^i 1 • ^' r 

\ mg JLeon. 1 hen came his preparation tor 

the St. Leger, for which "the brownskin" 
now "trimmed his plume of cherry feathers." The St. 
Leger was fixed for September 14, and he had a nice 
interval of three months. His St. Leger preparation 
became a puzzle to the denizens of Newmarket. The 
Sporting Life of September 10 reported Iroquois 
"lame in the near fore leg" and named Limestone, 
Geologist or Ishmael to win. BeWs Life named Geol- 
ogist; the Sporting Times named Ishmael. The impres- 
sion that "something was wrong" with "the brownskin" 

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had so fastened Itself upon the minds of the sporting 

writers that they could see nothing good 

.* /^.^'^ In him. The best "touts" In the kingdom 
Anxi6tt€S 

were blinded. Seven days before the race 

they "saw him gallop with Mistake and felt satisfied 

that the older horse could settle the young one." The 

next day he galloped i% miles with Seneca and Passaic 

and "the latter pulled over him all the way." They 

added, "He had to be ridden hard to keep near Passaic 

and pulled up much distressed." On the morning of 

the 8th he had "made his appearance with cloths on his 

fore legs — something was radically wrong with the 

Derby winner." 

Mr. PIncus said nothing, and allowed the little panic 

to proceed. However, Mr. Charles Bathgate, who was 

In England at the time managing Foxhall and Mr. 

Keene's stable, wrote us under date of August 31 : "Our 

friends in America have not accorded PIncus the credit 

that Is due him, for he really took a lame horse from 

the hands of his predecessor and won the principal 

event of the year. The colt will win the St. Leger, 

when I hope you will use the opportunity to accord him 

his full meed of praise." 

Iroquois came to the post for the St. Leger 

Iroquois ^ favorite at 2 to i, the public "following the 

yvtns the 

St Leger nioney," while 5 to i was quoted against St. 

Louis and Ishmael ; 1 1 to i against Limestone 

and Geologist; and 20 to i against Bal Gal. Fifteen 

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started and Archer In the "cherry and black" jacket 
"won easily by a length," three parts of a length be- 
tween Geologist and Lucy Glitters. St. Louis fourth. 
Time, 3.20%. 

Doncaster, Sept. 14, 1881. The io6th renewal of the St. Leger 
Stakes for three-year-olds, at £25 each; one mile, six furlongs 
and 132 yards; 232 subs. 

P. Lorillard's br. c. Iroquois, by Leamington-Maggie 

B. B. (Archer) i 

F. Gretton's br. c. Geologist, by Sterling (Cannon) . 2 
Mr. Perkins's br. f. Lucy Glitters, by Speculum (Snow- 
den) 3 

St. Louis (Fordham), Eusebe, Ishmael, Fortissimo, Limestone, 
Scobell, Falkirk, Bal Gal, Josyan, Privateer, Lord Chelmsford, 
and Voluptuary ran unplaced. 

That Archer was enabled to ride Iroquois for the St. 
Leger was due to the kindness of Lord Falmouth, who 
had a starter in Bal Gal, but relinquished his claim on 
Archer. The act was a gracious one, showing the spirit 
of the fine old English sportsman, but 
Lord Falmouth's ^^ j^^g ^^ ^^^^ i^ ^ letter he wrote Mr. 

Letter on the j^orlllard in which he took occasion to 

St. Leger v i 

say: "Your horse looked exceedmgly 

fresh and well. In the preliminary canter he went 
much the best of the field, moving with great freedom 
and full of action. Indeed, I never saw him move bet- 
ter. The race was run at a good pace and the moment 
that Archer took his place, after making the turn, it 
was never for an Instant In doubt. Iroquois won as 

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easily as he did the Prince of Wales Stakes— I should 
say, with at least lo lbs. in hand." 

After the St. Leger, it is said Mr. Pincus indulged 
Iroquois, and October 12 he started for the Champion 
Stakes, ij^ miles. Bend Or, winner of the Derby of 
1880, was favorite at 6 to 4 on, while it was 
r- II ^ 9 to 4 against Iroquois. Bend Or won by 

three parts of a length, Scobell second, 
Iroquois third, with Buchanan, Falkirk, Muriel and 
Fiddler unplaced. Iroquois had always beaten Scobell 
and could not have been at his best. At all events, Mr. 
Griswold states In his admirable "Sports on Land and 
Water," that Mr. Puryear "told Mr. Pincus after the 
race that the colt was short of work, and if he wanted to 
win the Newmarket Derby the following day, he had 
better give him a sweating gallop at once. He was 
blanketed and sent for a spin behind the stand, much to 
the horror of the talent." It must have benefited him, 
as the next day he won the Newmarket Derby, ij4 
miles, with Webb In the saddle, beating Ishmael, Len- 
noxlove and Lord Chelmsford. Charles Wood had 
ridden him in the Champion Stakes the previous day. 
Iroquois retired winner of seven of the nine races for 
which he started, one second and one third, having won 
$84,618. 

Iroquois was a rich-colored brown with a narrow 
blaze and left fore pastern white, a son of Leamington 
from Maggie B. B. by Australian grandam Madeline 

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by Boston; 3d dam Magnolia by Glencoe; 4th dam Im- 
ported Myrtle by Mameluke. He was bred by Mr. 
Arlstldes Welch, Chestnut Hill, Pa., March 27, 1878, 

and sold with Mr. Welch's yearlings In 
Description ^. ^g ^^ Messrs. P. and G. L. Lorll- 
of Iroquois j 1 1 y 1 . , 

lard. He was not a large yearlmg, but grew 

to good size later. He had a very high-bred appear- 
ance when he matured, his head as clean-cut as a cameo, 
wide between the eyes, small at the muzzle, large eyes 
and broad nostrils. His ears were long and slim, and 
he carried them "pricked." His most conspicuous 
point was his beautifully Inclined shoulder. He was 
rather high at the withers, and his back "dipped" a 
trifle, but there was a grand spread of quarters behind 
it. His legs were not heavy In bone. His pasterns 
were long and oblique; his feet of fair size, wide at the 
heel and the coronary band perfect. There was a 
great deal of finish to him and he had the look of a 
"gentleman" all over. 

Gerald and Sachem, the two-year-olds which had 

raced In America during the spring, landed In England 

In August, with the three-year-old filly 

Gerald and ^^^ ^^d September 30 Gerald started 

dachem r^ r • 1 ii-i 

for the Rous Memorial. He finished third 

In a field of six, the two In front of him, Dutch Oven 
and Nellie, being among the best of the year. On Oc- 
tober 10 Gerald ran second for the Middle Park Plate. 
It was a great performance for a colt only a few weeks 

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off shipboard, for the winner, Kermesse, was the cham- 
pion two-year-old of the season, and 
GeraldRuns Gerald beat such good ones as St. 

^mdlfpJrk Plate Marguerite (winner of theOneThou- 
sand Guineas the next season), also 
Shotover, who won the Derby the following spring. 
October 27, Gerald walked over for the Subscription 
Stakes, and thus closed the season of 1881. What 
with the Derby and St. Leger of Iroquois, the Grand 
Prix de Paris, Cesarewitch, and Cambridgeshire of 
Foxhall, and the triumphs of the American horses gen- 
erally, it has become known as "the American year." 

1882 

After the exploits of Iroquois and the high form of 

Gerald when hardly off his "sea legs," Mr. LorlUard 

had high hopes for the season of 1882 in England. He 

thought that with either Gerald or Sachem 

rf^ ^ . he had an excellent chance to win the 

txpectattons , 

Derby again, as the best English two-year- 
olds of the year before had been fillies— Kermesse, 
Dutch Oven, Nellie, and Geheimniss— the colts being 
quite moderate. 

The season, however, was one of mistakes and dis- 
appointments. The filly Touch Me Not won the Bed- 
ford Stakes, and Mistake won the Spring Handicap, 
while Aranza managed to win the Great Eastern Rail- 
way Handicap. The horses had been taken up rather 

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late in the winter, and it is possible their preparation 
was hurried to make up for lost time. Then 

Accident to j^.^ jg ^^.^y^^ ^ blood-vessel, and did not 

Iroquois ^ i • i 

start for a race durmg the entire year. 

Sachem never regained his courage after the match in 

America with Onondaga, while Gerald had become 

very savage and difficult to handle. 

Gerald was prepared for the Two Thousand Guineas, 

and three days before the race was given a trial with 

Mistake. In this trial there was a misunderstanding. 

It was to have ended with the Rowley Mile, 
^ ^'^Y^ll but instead of pulling up, they went on up 

the hill. A heavy shower came up, making 
the going soft, and Gerald finished quite distressed. 
The next day he broke a blood-vessel. He was 
"scratched," and Sachem was started as a forlorn hope, 
and ran unplaced. As Gerald's bleeding made him too 
doubtful. Sachem was prepared for the Derby instead. 
Both colts were started, however. Sachem finishing 
third to Shotover. Neither Gerald nor Sachem won a 
race during the year. Gerald's bleeding rendered it 
impossible to get him fit, and Sachem had become a 
rogue and would not try. 

"It was n't another 'American year'; we had our 
feathers badly plucked," said Mr. Pincus when he re- 
turned home. "Some said we lost our luck when we 
changed our quarters. The Hermitage was a good 
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to find a new place. Laying aside all joking, Gerald 
became so savage he was hard to handle. Sachem was 
nervous. Iroquois broke a blood-vessel just as his 
brother Harold did here in '79." 

"Iroquois is otherwise sound?" 

"Well, he did throw out a slight enlargement just 

above his quarter. What it was puzzled even Barrow, 

the Newmarket veterinarian, but it gave no 

r ' , trouble. It was the breaking of a blood- 
txpounas ^ 

vessel that compelled us to stop him." 

"What were the circumstances?" 

"That 's a mystery. When it broke he was only can- 
tering. When Gerald broke his it was after very strong 
galloping." 

"How do Iroquois and Foxhall compare?" 

"Foxhall's speed would put him at the top of the tree 
in any year, but I think Iroquois a better stayer under a 
strong pace. Foxhall is a great horse; his only draw- 
back is his small feet." 

"How about Sachem?" 

"Sachem was a bad color. He had great speed, but 
he had no heart for a hard finish. He is nervous and 
worries. He was spoiled before he left America. As 
a two-year-old he had been highly tried and turned out, 
the idea being to send him to England. Then Mr. 
Lorillard matched him against Onondaga for that race 
at Sheepshead Bay. He was taken up in a hurry, 
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race. They tell me — you saw the race — that he gave it 
up after running a splitting half mile, and Barbee pun- 
ished him severely. The colt never forgot it, and has 
been nervous ever since. The morning of the Cam- 
bridgeshire he was less nervous than 
Sachem in the i t t t i i i 

n L -J L- usual. He did not scour when he was 
Lambriagesnire 

brought out. You know one of the worst 
storms ever seen came down after the horses had gone 
to the post, and they were called back and the race post- 
poned. Well, that settled Sachem. He had gone 
through the saddling, the canter, and been at the post 
with thirty others, and was all of a tremble. The next 
day the race was run, and he did well to finish sixth, as 
he had fretted until he was all pumped out." 

With the close of 1882, Mr. Pincus returned to 
America, and Mr. Lorillard sent the horses to be 
trained by Tom Cannon at Stockbridge. The lot in- 
cluded Iroquois, Aranza, Comanche, Massasoit, and 
Touch Me Not, together with the following yearlings 
which had sailed from New York, October 7, on the 
ship Erin: Emperor, Choctaw, Pontiac, De Soto, Vic- 
trix. Nirvana and Nitocris. On the same ship came the 
mare Pinafore, and the filly Parthenia to fill her en- 
gagement for the Epsom Oaks. 

The year was not a brilliant one. Aranza won the 
Johnstone Plate. Iroquois ran second to Tristan for 
the Hardwick Stakes, and won the Stockbridge Cup, 
and with Aranza and Parthenia was shipped home to 

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New York. His breaking a blood-vessel made it im- 
possible to give him the strong work he needed, as he 
was a "good doer" and put on flesh. With the end of 
the season, Mr. Lorillard had such horses as he wanted 
brought home, sold the others, and closed his campaign 
in England. 



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CHAPTER VII 
THE RANCOCAS STUD 

The colt that for a stallion is designed, 
By sure presages shows his generous kind. 
Of able body, sound in limb and wind, 
Dauntless at empty noises; lofty necked, 
Sharp-headed, barrel-bellied, broadly backed. 

Dryden. 

WHILE Mr. Lorlllard was always a liberal pur- 
chaser, he considered It a greater honor to win 
with horses of his own breeding. Accordingly, he 
founded his Rancocas stud at Jobstown, Burlington 
County, N. J. In doing so, he showed the true feel- 
ing of a turfman. Nearly all our Eastern men, upon 
embarking In the breeding of race-horses, have been 
Induced to locate In Kentucky, Tennessee, California, 
or some distant point where they seldom see their stock 
more than once In a year, or the produce until as year- 
lings they are brought East to be trained. This has 

always been the drawback to racing In New 
th E t York In that the only genuine Interest has 

been In the produce as winners of races. 
With their stock thousands of miles away, owners 

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scarcely know them by sight. They know the stallions 
and mares only as producers of colts for racing. There 
is no such interest as British turfmen manifest who have 
their stock constantly in sight. Our owners seldom 
know much of breeding, that is to say, of pedigrees or 
of horses, outside their racing stables. 

Mr. Lorillard saw the success attending Mr. Francis 
Morris at Westchester, N. Y., whose Eclipse stock 
swept the board, and that of Mr. Welch, near Philadel- 
phia, whose Leamingtons carried all before them. He 
wanted his horses near home in order that they should 
be frequently under his own eye, for he knew that they 
would be properly cared for then, and that hired men 
never take the same care of property as the owner. 
What pleasure a man can find in his stock thousands of 
miles away he could not comprehend. There was a 
charm in roaming over the farm among the brood- 
mares and watching the growth of each colt or filly 
from the day it was foaled to the day it carried the 
colors. When that feature shall become common 
among the turfmen of New York, we shall have a 
healthier racing interest and, perhaps, better horses. 

Mr. Lorillard's first venture in thoroughbred stock 
was in 1871, when he purchased in England, of Sir 
Joseph Hawley, the mares Asterope, by Asteroid; Blue 
Stocking, by Thormanby; Girasol, by Asteroid; and 
Merry Wife, by Beadsman. Before the dispersal sale 
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proposed the formation of a syndicate to purchase the 
stallion Blair Athol and bring him to 

em^ uy America, in which case to stand him at 
Blmr Athol ^ ' 

Dr. FItzmaurice's place on Jerome Ave- 
nue, near New York City, where he would be available 
to all the breeders of the vicinity. But Blair Athol sold 
for $67,000, which was above the price expected. Ac- 
cordingly, Mr. Lorillard bought several of the brood- 
mares, including Second Hand by Stockwell, with filly 
foal by King John, for 370 guineas; MastermanbyKIng 
Tom, bred to Dundee, for 165 guineas; Jessie by Dun- 
dee, bred to Saunterer; and Highland Lassie by Blair 
Athol, bred to Gladiateur. These were brought to 
America and to them was added the American-bredmare 
Coquette by Lexington, purchased of General Buford. 

Thus, in 1873, M^- Lorillard had gathered quite a 
select stud. That year he sent most of his mares to 
Eclipse, owned by Mr. Francis Morris and standing at 
Westchester, N. Y. ; Eclipse, son of Orlando, being a 
very popular sire through the fame of his Alarm, Nar- 
ragansett, Ruthless, Remorseless, Nemesis, etc. He 
also purchased the stallions Canwell by Stockwell, and 
Bayonet by Lexington. When Saxon broke down, 
Mr. Lorillard bred to him, and he alternated with 
Bayonet until 1878, when he purchased in England 
for $15,000 the bay stallion Glenlyon by Stockwell 
from Glengowrle by Touchstone; grandam Glencairne, 
a full sister to Glencoe, and tracing back to old Pru- 

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nella, the greatest of all English brood-mares. Glen- 
lyon had sired Falmouth in England, and was thus a 
tried horse. The season of 1879 found Saxon and 
Glenlyon the reigning monarchs at Rancocas. The 
Saxons were much the type of their sire, 
whole-colored browns, seldom tall, but 
stocky. Hiawasse and Gerald were his best filly and 
colt, and Gerald was the largest colt he ever sired, a 
grand galloper and a very high-class colt all around. 
Hiawasse was small, but as game a bit of horseflesh as 
ever bore the cherry jacket. 

Glenlyon was doomed for a short sojourn at Ran- 
cocas. He served only two seasons (1879 and 1880) 
and was only a partial success. The best of his get 

were Battledore and Gonfalon. Moccasin 

The Glenlyons . , i 1 • 11 1 

came mto the stud, bemg unable to stand 

training. He was a bay colt purchased by Mr. Loril- 
lard in England as a yearling in 1875, and was a son of 
Macaroni from Madame Straus by King Tom. With 
limited chances, he sired a grand filly in Amazon, win- 
ner of the Vestal Stakes of 1882, also Disdain, Vam- 
pire, Cerise, Gossamer, etc. 

The death of Glenlyon in the summer of 1880 found 
Mr. Lorillard in quest of another stallion, and, hearing 
that the celebrated French horse Mortemer could be 
had, secured him for $25,000. Mr. Moon, represent- 
ing the Queen's stud, had also heard, and hastened 
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but Mr. Lorillard had anticipated him. Mortemer, 
with Agenoria, and her brother, the weanling Pizarro, 
reached New York November 25, 1880, 
The Arrival ^^ ^^^ steamer Italy, after a voyage of fif- 
of Mortemer , , , , . 1 i-r • a 

teen days, and began his stud hte m Amer- 
ica in 1 88 1 with forty-six mares of which forty 
produced foals in 1882, which for a stallion sixteen 
years of age was considered a great record. 

Mortemer was probably the best race-horse that was 
ever imported to America. For five seasons he raced 
in France, Germany and England under heavy weights, 
winning twenty-three races and rounding out his career 
by winning the Ascot Gold Cup, which in England is 
regarded as the great after-test of Derby winners. In 
1 87 1 Admiral Rous pronounced him "by 7 lbs. the 
best race-horse in Europe," and he retired to the stud 
sound. Mortemer was a chestnut, foaled in 1865, by 
Compiegne from Comtesse by The Baron or Nuncio; 
grandam Eusebia by Emilius. His sire was by Fitz 
Gladiator, son of Gladiator, he by Partisan, whose 
male line had not been very successful in 
Mortemer in ^^^^^^ ^^ g^^ ^^^^ Mortemer entered 

the Stud , , . • J • jr 

the stud his success was immediate. Irle 

sired Chamant, winner of the Middle Park Plate and 

Two Thousand Guineas; Verneuil, winner of the Gold 

Vase, Ascot Gold Cup and Alexandra Plate, 3 miles, 

all in one week; also St. Christophe, Augusta and 

Clementina, all famous on the course. 

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Mr. John Corlett, writing in the Sporting Times re- 
cently, remarks: "Lord Coventry believes Mortemer 
was the best horse that ever was foaled, and he was 
supported in that view by Admiral Rous. A big, over- 
grown horse, he took a long time to ripen, but when he 
won the Ascot Cup he was 'a smasher.' He stood 17 
hands high, and was good over any course, no matter 
how long or short. He had the action of a pony, and, 
big as he was, loved to hear his feet rattle. It was the 
rain that fell overnight that lost him the 

M. Lefevres Chester Cup. He was trying to give three 
Opinion of , ^ i 1 /->i t 1 

^ ^j. / Stone to the rour-year-old Cjlenlivat, and 

was second. Congratulating M. Lefevre, 
his owner, on a great performance of Vulcan, he meta- 
phorically waved us contemptuously aside with 'Ah, 
he is nossing — wait till you see my Mortemare.' 
We waited. It was in a sweepstakes on the T. Y. C. 
that we saw him and he had to meet 

ai I ou Normanby and Typheos, two of the 
See my Mortemare r 1 • t^ 

fastest horses of the time. For all 

that, it was 6 to 4 on Mortemer, and he won any- 
how." 

The first crop of Mortemers bred in America (in 
1882) produced a sensation, for among them were 
Wanda, Chimera, Cholula, Exile, Unrest, Bahama and 
Adonis, winners of 21 races in 1884 and $49,500 in 
stakes. Wanda was the champion two-year-old of her 
year, and champion three-year-old filly. In 1885 Mor- 

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temer was third in the list of "winning sires" with 41 
races and $68,680. After his second season, Mor- 
temer's foals rather fell off in quality. For this there 
were several reasons, one being that they followed their 

sire in being horses of great size and slow 

Mortemer and ,vu -iij^jr^ 

A d M maturity; hence, ill adapted tor two-year- 

old racing of which Mr. Lorillard was 
fond— and indulged his fondness. It spoiled many of 
them, which, had they not been rushed, would probably 
have shown to greater advantage with age. The other 
reason is that Mortemer was over-bred, and most of 
the mares with which he was mated were Lexington 
mares and very advanced in age. Mortemer was no 
longer a young horse. Many of his mates were twenty 
years old and over, and these had to be returned for 
service very often; in fact, one of them, it is on record, 
returned eighteen times in one season ! 

Duke of Magenta and Falsetto entered the stud in 
188 1, the former beginning well as the sire of Young 

Duke, but, like most of Lexington's 
Duke of MdQenta y^ , r a t » r 

andFaletto sons, Duke or Magenta s tame rests 

with his exploits as a race-horse rather 

than as a sire. Falsetto began well as the sire of the 

celebrated filly Dewdrop, the champion of 1885 and 

1886; but before her merit was known 
Falsetto's Success ^, ^ .,, , iix-i r ^^ 

as a Sire Lorillard sold Jbalsetto for $6000 

to Woodburn. In 1884 Iroquois having 

returned from England with the prestige of a Derby 



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and St. Leger winner, he entered the stud and made 
three seasons at Rancocas. Pizarro, who had retired 
after the Suburban of '84, entered the stud In 1885. 
SIddartha by Pero Gomez from The Pearl, and Kan- 
taka by Scottish Chief from Hermit's dam, also had a 
brief sojourn at Rancocas. When Mr. LorlUard re- 
sumed breeding in 1890, he Imported Sailor Prince, a 
son of Albert Victor from Hermlta, which had a repu- 
tation for speed. In 1895 he purchased of his broth- 
er's estate the peerless and unbeaten Sensation, son of 
Leamington and Susan Beane by Lexington, who was a 
decided success as he not only sired Democrat, winner 
of the Middle Park Plate in England, in which he de- 
feated Diamond Jubilee, but was second 
Sensation Second j^ the list of "winning sires" of England 

%..^^." c In i8qq, with a record of 20 races and 

IV inning dires ^ ^ 

$100,190 In Stakes and other races. 
Locohatchee was returned to the stud In 1895, and 
sired Caiman, winner of the Middle Park Plate In 
England. Pontiac also returned to Rancocas, where he 
was bred, and sired several winners. 

"The fact that a brood-mare has produced one high- 
class race-horse Is a poor guarantee that she will pro- 
duce another," said Mr. Lorillard when he resumed 
breeding and racing in 1890; "some will, but the per- 
centage is small. When I collected my original stud, I 
purchased the dams of all the good race-horses at high 
prices, but many of them had grown old, and some were 



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barren year after year." Then he proceeded to say that 

in forming his new stud he retained the best young 

mares from his training stable, and those he purchased 

were young, untried, and obtained at reasonable prices. 

Democrat and Caiman, his two winners of the Middle 

Park Plate In England, were from mares of no previous 

reputation. 

He also had an idea that a brood-mare should be bred 

while young. "I noticed," he remarked, "that many of 

the mares I purchased and which had been raced until 

they were six or seven years old, were bad 

1 J. ^ milkers when they had foals. I noticed, on 
on breeding •' 

the other hand, mares that were bred while 
young were good milkers. I have often thought it 
would be a good plan to breed mares when they were 
three years old, and by that means develop the milk 
veins before they had matured and lost their flexibility. 
It might be better to breed them as two-year-olds for 
that purpose, without regard to the first foal— you 
could n't expect much of him, but It would open up 
the veins and help the milking for future foals. Of 
course, there is the objection that by doing this we 
would be unable to train the filly and would never know 
whether she had any racing qualities. I had rather 
breed from a mare that had raced, but we can't have 
everything." 

Speaking of sales of yearlings as late as 1893, after 
his return to racing, Mr. Lorlllard said he had often 

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thought it a good plan to offer all he bred for public 
sale. 

"Would you not risk selling your best and having the 
worst left on your hands?" we asked. 

"Not with the large number I breed. I shall soon 
have more than I can train," he replied. 
"Then you would give buyers the pick?" 
"I would; for if I picked them it would spoil the 
sale of the others. I am willing to take my chance. The 
more I see of it, the more I believe that yearlings are a 
lottery. Some men are said to be 'good judges.' It 's all 
nonsense. If they select a good one, it is remembered. 
People forget how many bad ones the same men picked. 
Of course, if I tried them before sale I would put a 
price on the best to protect myself. But if I offer them 
before trial, buyers can have them at a stated price." 
"You find it cheaper to breed than to buy?" 
"A great deal. Yearlings bring such prices now it 
costs a small fortune to buy many. I can breed fifty 
at less cost than I could buy four or five at the prices 
they are bringing; and in such a number a man has a 
better chance of getting a good one. Those I bred gen- 
erally satisfied me better than the ones I purchased as 
yearlings. Three years ago I purchased $75,000 worth 
at sales and they all proved bad, while the few I bred 
myself did very well. Horses bred in a private stud, 
particularly when the owner is around and sees them 
often, are better than those bred for sale. In England 

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there is n't one good horse In fifty bred by the sale 
studs. The good ones are bred in the private studs, 
some of them very small studs." 

"When you retired from racing In 1886 you had just 
begun breeding good ones." 

"Oh, yes. I suppose I made a mistake selling the 
breeding stock. Just recall how many good ones I had 
bred — Dewdrop, Wanda, Exile, Flirt, Sleipner, Sirocco, 
Cholula, Chimera, Quito, Savanac, HIawasse, Pontlac, 
Gerald and I don't know how many more. Of course, 
most of my mares were old, but I would have soon had 
a crop of younger ones. I notice Lord Falmouth never 
raced his fillies after they were three years old, but bred 
them, and hereafter I shall observe that policy." 



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CHAPTER VIII 
RACING, 1879-1882 

There 's good old Parole — 

How often he stole 
To the front, like the flight of an arrow; 

Little Saxon, the brown, 
And those bays of renown — 

Uncas, Basil, Attila, Pizarro. 
Wanda, chestnut bright; 

Pontiac, black as night; 
And Iroquois, brown as a berry; 

And Dewdrop, brown-bay. 
Have all shown the way 

With the Lorillard jacket of "Cherry." 

1879 

MR. LORILLARD, with the pick of his stable In 
England, did not play as prominent a part In 
the racing of 1879 as he had In previous years. It was 
not until the middle of July that he even won a race. 
Zoo Zoo, Boardman and Spartan had lost form. Paw- 
nee, the three-year-old brother of Parole, had a sick- 
ness and never was the same colt, and The Squaw, a 
sister to Enquirer, could not be trained. Mr. Brown, 
the trainer, had been sent to England with Parole, and 
Mr. Charles LIttlefield trained the horses for a time 

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and was succeeded by Jacob PIncus. But Mr. Lorlllard 
was ever on the lookout for "recruits" and purchased 
Wallenstein and Mistake, both colts by Waverly and 
both had won races In the West. He also purchased 
Sly Dance, a winner of three stakes In the West, for 
$10,000. Wallenstein won for the stable at Jerome 
Park some overnight events. 

The season of 1879 was memorable for the appear- 
ance of Mr. James R. Keene as a turfman, with the 
famous Spendthrift, a colt which had won the Belmont, 
Lorlllard and Jersey Derby In such style that he ap- 
peared to hold all the events of the season 

r JL r safe. When he had won the sensational 
spendthrift 

race for the Lorlllard Stakes some of the 
Western men said, "Falsetto will clip his wings when 
they meet." They met for the Travers Stakes at Sara- 
toga. Spendthrift was a great favorite, but Falsetto, 
ridden by 

The rugged Murphy, "he whose sable arms, 
Black as his purpose, did the night resemble 
When he lay couched in the ominous horse," 

defeated Spendthrift by two lengths and won. The 
excuse made for Spendthrift was sore feet, but when 
they met for the Kenner Stakes, three weeks later. Fal- 
setto again proved "the ominous horse" upon whose 
back Isaac Murphy was "couched," for he again de- 
feated Spendthrift and was acclaimed "the colt of the 

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year." Falsetto's action, when extended, was the ideal 
of animal mechanism, as regular as the piston-rod of 
an engine and as resistless as fate. The halo of victory 
seemed to shine about him as he galloped low-headed 

and with frictionless bounds that marked 

Purchase of , . ^, , ^ • • z. c 

pi. him among the 300 horses trammg at Sara- 

toga. He won the heart of Mr. Lorillard, 
who secured him for $18,000, and he was shipped to 
England with Sly Dance, Mistake and Wallenstein. In 
a trial at Newmarket, he was said to have given Parole 
12 lbs., but he proved one of Mr. Lorillard's dearest 
bargains, for he broke down before Mr. Brown could 
bring him to the post and came home with Parole the 
next year. 

In two-year-olds the stable was very badly off. Ethel 
by Saxon from Second Hand by Stockwell was the best 
and ran second to Sensation for the Juvenile. But 
Sensation was in a class by himself. He never was 
beaten and ranks among the greatest two-year-olds in 
the history of American racing. To give an idea of the 
estimate in which Sensation was held, the following 
allotment of weights for the Manhattan Handicap of 
1 88 1 will serve best: 



Sensation (4) 


. 122 lbs. 


Victim, aged 


. 116 lbs 


Parole, aged 


. 120 " 


Sly Dance (4) . 


. 112 " 


Hindoo (3) . 


. . 120 " 


Girofle (4) . 


. 112 " 


Crickmore (3) 


. 119 ^' 


Eole (3) . . 


. 107 " 


Uncas (5) . 


. 116 '' 







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1880 

The season of 1880 proved quite an Improvement over 
1879 for the Lorlllard stable. Uncas, despite his er- 
ratic temper, ran kindly when he had the rail at his side, 
which he had seemed to miss while In England. He 
began with a brilliant victory for the Westchester Cup, 

winning also the Grand National Handl- 
rr. jr cap. Duke of Montrose won at Coney 

Island, while the two-year-old Barrett 
won the August and Criterion, beating the renowned 
filly Splnaway. Barrett was an enormous colt by 
Bonnie Scotland, plain but muscular, with great depth 
of heart and back ribs and quarters as massive as a 
steer's. His defeats of Splnaway gave him great pres- 
tige, and Mr. Lorlllard dispatched him to 

^ rj England with an eye to the Derby of '81 ; 

Lomes tiome ° •' -^ ' 

but he was palpably a non-stayer. Toward 
the close of the year Parole was brought home from 
England, and when he appeared at Jerome Park re- 
ceived an ovation, his appearance recalling Scott's 

And next I saw them saddled, lead 
Old Cheviot forth, the earl's best steed; 
A matchless horse, though something old. 
Swift in his paces, cool and bold. 

The old hero responded by winning all of the four 
races for which he started. As Mr. Brown was unwill- 
ing to remain in England, Mr. Lorlllard sent Jacob 

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PIncus to Newmarket and engaged Anthony Taylor to 
train the horses racing at home. 

Anthony Taylor was from the north of England, a 

brother of Alexander Taylor, the well-known English 

trainer. Taylor had trained Parmesan and other good 

horses In England, and came over to train for Mr. M. 

H. Sanford In 1867. He spoke In the 

ony ay or broadest Doric of the north, and was a 
highly capable trainer, having trained for Mr. LIttell, 
Mr. O'Donnell and others; but his convivial habits pre- 
vented a long tenure to his engagements. There was a 
story that on one occasion he stopped at the old Re- 
formed church near Jerome Park, and at two o'clock 
In the morning pounded on the door. Insisting It was a 
tavern, and finding no response to his shouts of "Land- 
lord!" ended by challenging the landlord "to come out- 
side and have It out," as he would teach him "how to 
treat a gentleman." It was probably after one of these 
frolics, when he was Inclined to sleep late of a morning 
and the head lad had partially roused him from his 
slumbers, that he gruffly Inquired, "What o'clock b' It, 
lad?" "Twenty to eight," replied the boy. "Put on 
ten dollars for me," muttered "Tony," as he rolled 
over and fell asleep. 

1881 

The season of 1881 was one of glory for the Lorlllard 
stable in England, but hardly so at home. It was 



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marked at the outset by the appearance of Gerald and 

Sachem, two colts of great promise. Gerald won at 

Jerome Park In June, then he won the Foam Stakes at 

Coney Island, and was shipped to England. He had 

defeated Onondaga, and as there was some 

^ J bantering after the race, Mr. Lorillard said 

Onondaga ° ' 

he "had a colt at home" he would match 
against Onondaga, and the match was made for $5000 
a side. Mr. Lorillard then named Sachem. This colt 
had been highly tried, then turned out, the idea being 
to send him to England for the next year's Derby. But, 
the match made, he was taken up, hastily prepared, and 
was beaten by Onondaga. Showing enough speed, how- 
ever, he was sent with Gerald to England soon after. 
Aranza, a bay filly by Bonnie Scotland-Arizona by 
Lexington, had won about all her races in the West, 

and Mr. Lorillard, ever on the alert to 

r A Strengthen his stable, purchased her of Mr. 

of Aranza ° ' ^ 

Darden for $13,000, and she made her 
Eastern debut at Monmouth with Spark in the Loril- 
lard colors. They were favorites over the field, but with 
all her tremendous prestige, Aranza was badly beaten. 
It was a hard blow to her thousands of backers who 

had looked upon her chance as one of the 
^ , "soft" things of the season, and one of them 

found vent to his Injured feelings in the 
following paraphrase of Ben Barnacle's song in the 
operetta "Billee Taylor" : 

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The yarn that I 'm about to spin 

Is all on account of Aranza; 
I '11 tell you how I was taken in, 
All on account of Aranza: 
She came out from the West reckoned A No. i, 
It was said she could go like a shot from a gun, 
So I went to Long Branch to see the fun, 
All on account of Aranza. 

Eleven starters were in the race, 

Ten besides my Aranza, 
So I backed P. Lorillard for straight and place. 
All on account of Aranza. 
Some said that the filly was n't up to the mark, 
If she was she would clean out all Monmouth Park, 
And that Lorillard intended to win with Spark, 
All on account of Aranza. 

The flag went down — my eyes I strained, 

All on account of Aranza, 
To see if the Lorillard jacket gained. 
All on account of Aranza. 
There was blue and orange, and blue and red, 
And Sportsman and Priam and Greenland led. 
With the others a dozen lengths ahead. 
Nearly last of all came Aranza. 

I 've almost sworn I '11 never bet. 

All on account of Aranza; 
I 'm almost up to my ears in debt. 
All on account of Aranza. 
He who follows the ''public form" is wise, 
A "line" from the West is all a surmise, 
I '11 only believe what I see with my eyes, 
All on account of Aranza. 

Aranza followed Gerald and Sachem to England 
soon after her race at Monmouth. Parole started 24 
times during the season of 1881, winning 12 races and 

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was placed in eight others, among his winnings being 
the Westchester Cup and Manhattan Handicap ; and he 
was cheered whenever he made an appearance. Bar- 
rett, who had failed so utterly In England, came home 
In August, and In October won the Jerome Stakes and 
several other races. HIawasse, the little brown daugh- 
ter of Saxon and Vandallte, defeated Mr. George 
Lorlllard's Memento In a match race which grew out 
of Mr. Lorlllard's fondness for Saxon, the horse which 
had first carried his colors In 1 873. He had stood a lot 
of chaffing from his brother George, who often de- 
clared Saxon "was n't worth his oats," until he offered 
to match the get of Saxon against anything In "Mr. 
George's" stable. 

During the season Anthony Taylor resigned as the 
stable's trainer. Matt Byrnes had been head lad with 
Pincus and later with Taylor. Byrnes was offered the 
post by Mr. Lorlllard on no less than three occasions — 
something like Caesar being offered the 
^ crown— but he had declined, being appalled 

at the responsibility involved. Finally, Mr. Lorlllard 
said, "You must take It," and Byrnes began at Jerome 
Park In October, winning four races In one day, and he 
remained until Mr. Lorlllard retired In 1885. 

1882 

In 1882 the principal races won by Mr. Lorlllard's 
horses were the Ladies, Mermaid and Monmouth Oaks 

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by Hiawasse; the Foam and Seabright by Parthenia ; 
the Champagne by Breeze; the Selling and Ocean 
Stakes by Barrett; the Atlantic, Red Bank and August 
by Pizarro; the Vestal by Amazon; the Optional by 
Disdain; the Newark by Wyoming; and the Breeders 
by Battledore. Parole, as usual, won his 
share, eight races, although he was nine years 
old. Hiawasse, a beautiful brown filly, one of the first 
good ones Mr. Lorillard had bred, won all the races for 
which she started. She lacked size as a two-year-old 
and Anthony Taylor, who trained her, advised Mr. 
Lorillard to sell her, but Matt Byrnes begged so hard 
that he refrained, and felt gratified when she swept all 
the filly stakes. 

But Pizarro was the hope, the golden apple, of the 
stable. A slashing whole-colored bay, by Adventurer 
from Milliner by Rataplan, he was purchased in Eng- 
land at the Rev. Mr. King's sale in 1880 as a weanling 
and came over with his sister Agenoria and 

n^^7^ ■ n Mortemer. Mr. Lorillard gave 420 guin- 
Parthenia ^ & t & 

eas for him, and he more than won it out 
in his first season and retired early, being saved for his 
three-year-old engagements. Parthenia, a bay daugh- 
ter of Alarm and Maiden (Parole's dam), was another 
of the stable's gems. Like most of Maiden's foals, she 
was angular, yet full of that high quality which is the 
heritage of Orlando's descendants. Breeze was an- 
other daughter of Alarm, from Blairgowrie by Bread- 

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albane, a filly of great speed, but jady after six 
furlongs. Battledore was one of the best of the Glen- 
lyons and came near being sold after winning a selling 
stakes, but Mr. Lorlllard's uncle happened to be among 
the bidders, and through a mistake In Identity re- 
marked, "That 's one of the mares Pierre wants to 
sell," which the bidder overhearing, he stopped bid- 
ding, saying, "If LorlUard don't want her, I don't, 
either." 

Barrett, after his return from England, wintered 
well and the stable had great hopes, after he had won 
the Jerome Stakes, that he would stay with age better 
on our prepared tracks than he had on the turf 
courses In England. But Charlie Shauer, his 
jockey, chuckled when, during the winter, he read In the 
newspapers how he had "easily disposed of Spend- 
thrift" at Jerome Park, and told his friends he was 
"lucky to beat a wind-broken horse at a mile." It was 
even so — Barrett was a non-stayer. 

There was heavy betting at this time. A "tout" was 
discovered at Rancocas In the person of a household 
servant. Mr. Lorillard had frequently found himself 
forestalled In the betting, and was puzzled to know the 
source. Whenever he had a "good thing," he was 
amazed to find the "secret" the property of 
th H u professional betting men; and what added 

to the Irritation was the feeling that It came 
from some person In his employment. The matter was 

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kept quiet until the frequent visits of one of the ser- 
vants to Philadelphia aroused suspicion. The man was 
discharged, and after that the stable secrets ceased to 
find their way to New York and Philadelphia. The 
man's position in the house had given him opportunities 
to see and hear a great deal, and it was thought he was 
there for no other purpose. 

The same season at Monmouth an attempt was made 

to "nobble" Pizarro. Byrnes was awakened from his 

slumbers by a noise in Pizarro's box. Seizing a pistol, 

he dashed out and at the same moment 

Attempt to ^1 r r 

u\T lit » n- the figure or a man was seen commg 

^'Nobble Ftzdrro ° , ° 

from the door of the box and making 
off at full speed. Byrnes fired over his head, but the 
fellow escaped in the darkness. Upon examination it 
was found the lock had been picked. It was evidently 
an attempt to "nobble" Pizarro, as the colt was a 
starter for the Red Bank stakes the next day. 

Edward Feakes, who rode for Mr. Lorillard in 1 8 8 1 
and for several years following, was born at Cam- 
bridge, England, in 1856. He was apprenticed to 
Matthew Dawson, and was with Fred Archer, riding 
light-weights in the Dawson stable. He came 
to America in 1871 for Mr. M. H. Sanford, 
and later rode for Mr. Belmont. He rode Parole in 
most of his races after the gelding returned from Eng- 
land. A waiting race was his forte, and as it was also 
Parole's, the pair were a great success. Feakes was a 

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man above the average. In later years he became a 
trainer, and finally settled in New Jersey, where he de- 
veloped a taste for pubhc affairs and was elected 
Mayor of the town. 



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CHAPTER IX 
A VISIT TO RANCOCAS 

He kept a stud of racers; 

T was his joy to see them run, 
And his sideboard was all covered 

With the prizes they had won. 

'/'^UR foals this year are the finest lot ever seen at 
V^ Rancocas, and you should come down, If it were 
only to see the little Mortemers," said Mr. Lorlllard 
one day during the autumn meeting at Jerome Park. A 
visit to Rancocas had always been a source of delight, 
and It was not long after that with a light heart we were 
whirling through New Jersey en route to Jobstown, 
where, after two changes of cars, we landed. The sun 
had set ere we reached Trenton and the moon 
had risen before the train had reached our 
destination. The four-In-hand drag was awaiting us, 
but the journey was short, for In five minutes we had 
rolled up the broad drive to the house. Mr. Griswold 
was on the veranda to meet us, and Mr. N. G. Lorlllard 
and Mr. Cutting were also "down from the city." 
Pausing for a moment In the hall to inspect a portrait of 

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Highland Lassie with a foal at her foot, we pass into 
the cosy library where a wood-fire burns and crackles 
cheerfully. Horse portraits are plenty. Mortemer, 
from the easel of Harry Stull, and Iroquois, the work 
of Harry Hall, look down from either side; Mortemer 
with head aloft and flag outstretched, as though answer- 
ing the call of one of the Belgravian dames of Ran- 
cocas. Uncas finds a place on the side panel, and 
Parole, in his three-year-old form, looks 
Gallery of ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ g| j^^ Pj.qj^ ^]^^ library 

the ''Cracks , i- • j u t t 

to the dmmg-room, and here Uncas agam 

finds a place over the sideboard. Near the fireplace 
Zoo Zoo catches the eye, and Parole's portrait, painted 
in England and nearly five feet in length, occupies the 
middle panel; and on its broad frame are inscribed the 
triumphs of the famous gelding here and in England; 
while immediately below, Attlla's silver bowl forms a 
pleasant memento of the "run-off" of the dead-heat for 
the Travers of 1 874. 

In the rear hall hangs a clock, which, at intervals of 
a half hour, sends forth a cavatina from the bugler 
within, and our host succeeded In palming the serenade 
off upon us as that of *'an old one-legged soldier," until 
our credulity proved too amusing. The hall Is gar- 
nished with paintings of Glenlyon by Mr. 
CW^"'''''' Scott, also of Moccasin, and Saxon finds a 
place near the hat-stand to remind Mr. 
Lorillard of his first winner; while Duke of Magenta 

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and Spartan continue the line of heroes of the "cherry 
and black" jacket. Dinner over, an adjournment to 
the library is the signal for a "horse talk" — as might 
be expected. Saxon's Belmont down to Amazon's Ves- 
tal are recounted now with the doings of Zoo Zoo, 

Basil and Pizarro. Parole's campaigns 

''Horse Talk'' r ,, ,i -r.^ f i 

are rought over as earnestly as it they had 

been those of Caesar or Napoleon. "The Colonel" was 
gravely eloquent in behalf of Ten Broeck, and "Pri- 
vateer" did not let an opportunity slip to get in a good 
word for Waxy, Whalebone, and Whisker. Mr. Grls- 
wold Lorillard expatiated on cross-country riding. Mr. 
Cool dwelt upon some of the early events of the stable's 
career, and "the Doctor," in his measured and icily 
regular way, explained Parole's ill-starred venture for 
the Kentucky Derby. 

"Breakfast will be served at nine o'clock," were Mr. 
Griswold's last words. We had kept late hours, and 
the sun was shining when we awoke. All was astir as 
we peeped from our window and viewed the spreading 
acres of the estate, which sank with the horizon, in the 
golden mist of the October morning. Men were com- 
ing and going and the roll of wagons told that the day's 
work had begun. Presently we see a string of eight 
horses trotting on the training track. They 

D are yearlings. The sight is too much for 

Kancocas . . 

a racing enthusiast; we dress hastily and 
are soon down to where Matt Byrnes stands smiling 

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and Feakes salutes us with a cheery "Good morning." 
Charlie Shauer, too, joins in greeting. The track cov- 
ers three quarters of a mile, with easy turns, and here 

it was that Saxon and Attila learned their 

The Yearlings ■, j r> i j t 

«o , ,,, lessons, and rarole and Iroquois were 
at 'dchool , ^ . 

first put through their paces. A big brown 
two-year-old is leading as "schoolmaster" to a lot of 
yearlings, and Endymion brings up the rear. But the 
gentlemen are on the veranda, and we are reminded 
that breakfast is served. 

One can form little idea of the magnitude of Ran- 
cocas by a casual glance. The farm covers 1500 acres, 

mostly meadow land. It is slightly un- 

The Magnitude j 1 ^- 1 ^ j ^ ^ 

r , p^ dulatmg, on a somewhat sandy stratum, 

which insures good drainage. Of its 
stock operations it need only be stated that it consumes 
20,000 bushels of oats per annum, and 7000 bushels of 
carrots. The stud consists of eighty brood- 
"^ mares, eight stallions, forty-eight horses in 

training, including yearlings, and forty-four weanlings, 
not to speak of a large number of half-breds and horses 
for general use. The cattle are exceptionally fine, and 
the sheep and Berkshire pigs are strong in numbers. 

But it is not in live stock alone that Rancocas can 
boast its productions. The nurseries are among the 
finest in the land. Strawberries, cucum- 
bers, tomatoes, and melons are to be had 
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constructed for the production of mushrooms, is quite a 

model of its kind. The floral productions comprise 

roses of varied shade and perfume, and water-lilies of 

delicate hue peep out from their hiding-places, while 

rare exotics from distant points of the Orient and the 

Occident grow side by side in profusion. 

The training stable is circular in shape, and within is 

a walking ring for winter work on the straw-bed, and 

well sheltered by the boxes surrounding it. 

e raining "Yht horses are out, and old Parole leads, 
Stable 

looking rough and ready as he rolls his 

eye at us. Herbert follows, "a plain horse but a good 

doer"; Barrett lays back his ears In sullen disdain, as 

though he overheard some remarks from 

Parole Leads ^i c i' i, ' ut^ij- 

.L p r the company or his bemg a Derby disap- 

pointment." Pizarro, "the Lincolnshire 
beauty," dances gaily in the sunlight as he passes, look- 
ing more robust than when he last bore the "cherry" 
jacket. Gonfalon, a burly brown, and little Nimrod 
jog along demurely. Spartacus we hardly fancy, but 
Amazon, a lovely filly, prances and dances with excess 

of spirits. Venetia follows, and then Dis- 
d'Fl't dain. Inconstant, Breeze and Battledore come 

along in Indian file, quite a corps d'elite, 
comprising winners of the Atlantic, August, Red Bank, 
Optional, Breeders, and Champagne Stakes. Hiawasse 
is enjoying the "rest cure" in her box, round as a ball, 
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Oaks, Ladles, and Mermaid Stakes but for her familiar 
Vandal head and long ears. 

Now we have the yearlings. Leo leads the "rising 
generation" of Rancocas, "a blaze-faced young rip," 
with four white feet, and covered with grey hairs that 

proclaim his Duke of Magenta paternity. 

The Yearlings tt- i ^t-i o r n • 

^ His dam, 1 he bquaw, was a ruU sister to 

Enquirer and Mr. Lorillard gave Mrs. Brown $1000 

for him. A bay colt by Glenlyon-Minnie Minor is 

rather coarse, while Manitoba, by Glenlyon, lacks stifle 

power. Young Duke, by Duke of Ma- 

Minnie Minor's , , , . i -i 1 • 1 

Q^l^ genta, has the grey hairs and tail which 

seem to be the Duke's escutcheon. En- 
dymion, purchased of Mrs. Hart for $5000, is a Ten 
Broeck and a grand individual except that he cuts in 
below the knee, and we turn to Tornado, a big colt by 
Glenlyon, with bad shoulders. Huron, a whole-col- 
ored dark bay, by Saxon from Vandalite, and a brother 
of Hiawasse, is small, but very neat and level. Then 
follow Gipsy, Smilax, Brilliant, Blossom, Zamora, 
Radha and Kaskaskia. 

On a slight elevation facing the south stands a huge 
glass house, a crystal palace which but for its height 
might be mistaken for a greenhouse. It is the "Play- 
house" in Rancocasan vernacular— a 
The ''Playhouse" r 1 • j , 

sort or kindergarten, where the wean- 
lings are turned out during the winter. It is not used 
until the frost sets in, but the weanlings had been kept 

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in this morning to afford us an opportunity for close 
Inspection before they were turned loose In the pad- 
dock. This mammoth glass building Is 350 feet In 
length by 250 In width. The floor Is covered with sand 
which never freezes and allows the youngsters full 
scope to play and romp during the coldest days In win- 
ter. As the door Is opened the sight Is bewildering. 
Thirty-three colts and fillies are at play, mostly Mor- 
temers and mostly chestnuts. They were but recently 
weaned, and the brown mare Hildegarde was still with 
her foal, a brown filly foaled late In June. 
en ings j^ j^ difficult to form an opinion In such a 
constantly moving throng, but a chestnut colt from 
Highland Lassie was among the most forward — "an 
early foal— Feb. 18," we are told. A chestnut filly with 
a blaze is Loulanier's — 

The pick of the basket, 
The belle of the ball ; 

she has beautifully laid shoulders, deep flanks, and a 
straight back, tremendous hips and propelling power. 
Vandalite's colt Is small and Hindoo's dam has a chest- 
nut filly of great quality. Lizzie Lucas' filly rubs her 
nose against us, a whole-colored chestnut, and Ontario's 
colt is a rousing big chestnut with fine length. Fannie 
Ludlow's colt Is not large, but neat; and one of the few 
bays In the lot is Carrie Atherton's filly; but If she has 
not Mortemer's color, she has his marks. A great 

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scamper ensues as they are turned into their paddock. 
Lizzie Berry's filly is a nice mover and Minnie Minor's 
filly with a crooked blaze gallops so lightly that she 
"would n't break an egg." We cross the fence to where 
some young Falsetto and Duke of Magenta weanlings 
are huddled together under the wing of a mare by 
Bayonet. A chestnut roan by the Duke from the grey 
mare Felicity is promising, and Judith, the old steeple- 
chaser, has thrown a chestnut by Falsetto, who "shows 
his sire's action" as he gallops away when they rattle a 
hat at him. 

Uncas was standing up to his knees in straw, and "the 
last of his race" lacks the length of his famous brother 

Wanderer. Some have called him "cobby," 
P , „ but he has great depth of brisket, and girths 

69 inches; his arm at the swell is i8j4 
inches. Never a tall horse, he supplies that in bulk. 
Powhatan, "the brother to Parole," is taller than his 

brother and a heavier horse. Moccasin, 
X, . the bay son of Macaroni, is a strapping big 

one; he has bad legs, but has done well in 

the stud as the sire of Amazon, Disdain, and Vampire. 

Mortemer was standing like a statue in his yard. 

There is something impressive in the personnel of "the 

mighty Frenchman." Massive, stately and 

Mortemer . • 1 1 1 1 • 1 

imperious, he looks a king among horses, re- 
calling the words Shakespeare puts into the mouth of 
the Dauphin: 



"CHERRY AND BLACK" 

He is the prince of palfreys; 

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch 

And his countenance enforces homage. 

A deep red chestnut with a narrow, divided blaze, he 
stands 16.2%, measures 73 inches girth; his arm at the 
swell, 19 inches; below the knee, 8 inches. His shoul- 
der-blade is 32 inches in length; and from hip to hock 
he measures 42 inches. His off fore-foot has given 
them some trouble, otherwise he carries his age well 
and is as gentle as a dog. In his first season here he 
had 40 foals from the 46 mares with which he was 
mated. 

It was some time since we had seen Saxon, whose 
Belmont stakes of '74 was the dawning of the Loril- 
lardian era, and there is little to recall the glossy brown 
that answered the call of Barbee's whip that bright 
Tune afternoon. He stands 15.3, girths 70;^ 
inches, and 20 inches around the arm. He is of 
the style of the pictures of his kinsman Blue Gown; 
not large, but bulky, plump-quartered and short-legged. 
But Mortemer has disturbed his domestic happiness, 
and he has had few "mothers of the cherry jacket" 
since the Frenchman came to Rancocas. 

Falsetto came out proudly arching his neck, as 

though he remembered the day at Saratoga when he 

galloped Spendthrift to a standstill for the 

a setto Xravers. The brown son of Enquirer has not 

changed as much as some horses do when they are out 

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of training. He is i6.o^^ and as graceful as an ante- 
lope. He is of a highly nervous organization, and we 
have heard that with much stud service he refuses his 
feed. "Four white legs deny him," runs the old adage. 
"But he has also a white face— that makes it a 'flush,' " 
answered one of our party. 

Duke of Magenta came out like a war horse and 
then began throwing up his heels as he did in training. 
Bramble saw those heels all too often in '78. A light 
bay, 16.034? he girths 72 inches; his limbs are very 

large, the arm 21 inches, the gaskin 24 J4 
T, ^ inches, which gives some idea of the enormous 

driving power he possessed. "No one ever 
knew how good he was," was a common remark, as 
none could live with him ; and when he went to England 
what a great race-horse Bramble became in '79, win- 
ning all the cups ! He marks his children, for if you go 
through the paddock and see a bay plentifully sprinkled 
with gray hairs you are safe if you conclude it is "one 
of the Duke's own." 



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CHAPTER X 

"THE MOTHERS OF THE 
CHERRY JACKET" 

In a paddock, through which it is treason to pass, 

Well sheltered around from the breeze; 
Enriched with a pasture of succulent grass, 

Engirt with a cordon of trees, 
A four-footed matron, not many years old. 

Is strolling, her symmetry rare 
Attracting attention from all who behold 

This bonnie brown thoroughbred mare. 

IT is among the traditions of the Rancocas mares 
that Susan Ann made eighteen visits to Mortemer 
during one season, without result; that Girasol, the dam 
of Saxon, was barren twelve years (from 1872 to 
1884) when she produced a foal by Bulwark; 

^^<^ocas ^j^^^ Minnie Minor carried Wanda twelve 
I raditions 

months, almost to a day; and that Highland 

Lassie produced eight foals, all of which were bays or 

browns by different sires, but never a 

e pec Of chestnut until mated with Mortemer, to 
tatermty 

whom she produced nothing but chestnut 

foals. But enough of tradition, and the freaks of na- 

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ture ! Let us to the brood-mare's paddocks, where the 

''mothers of the cherry and black" are gathered to 

await us. 

From Duke of Magenta's court to "the Lexington 

Paddock" is but a step when expectation is on tiptoe 

and Mr. Riley, the obliging studmaster, 

n fT^K leads the way as pilot ; and, mastering the 
ton Faadock ■' ^ 

slight ascent, we pass through the gate to 
the paddock, where a fine view of the surrounding 
country is had, and where the daughters of old Lex- 
ington, to the number of fifteen, are 

ine yarns Of arouped; and a dark chestnut of great 
Hindoo, Thora . , , , • i i i • i 

and Girofle ^^^^ ^"^ beauty, a deep-girthed bay with 

white hind heels, and a small chestnut 

with white legs, who moves off as we approach, remind 

us that the dams of Hindoo, Thora and Girofle are all 

companions now. 

We should scarcely have recognized in the bay the 

Susan Ann of other days, for, from the gay filly of '70 

which carried the "green and orange" favors of Mc- 

Grathiana in her mane, years have transformed her into 

quite a dowager; and those white hind fet- 

, jy, locks, which Kingfisher and Littleton saw 

ana Florence ^ '^ 

to their sorrow, now touch the ground. 
Yet, as the dam of Thora, she is more celebrated than 
her racing exploits had made her. Florence's was a 
new face to us; but the dam of Hindoo is a fine type 
of the thoroughbred mare. Ratan, on the other hand, 

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Is an old acquaintance, and we gaze In vain to find 

whence GIrofle derived her size and beauty. Lizzie 

Berry, the dam of Ingomar and Inconstant, and Lady 

Wallenstein, the dam of Wallenstein, stand with their 

heads together, as If holding a whispered consultation 

— perhaps over Wallensteln's doings In England. 

"That lengthy chestnut Is Squeez'em," says the 

studmaster as he leads forward the dam of Day Star, 

the Kentucky Derby winner. "They are all Lexington 

mares In this lot, except that bay with a star and such 

black legs— that 's Sly Boots, the dam of Sachem," and 

we make out a lengthy mare of great sub- 

e am oj stance as she walks off to join her half- 
oachem , . -^ . 

sister Squeez'em for a nibble of the moist 

grass. "The brown one Is Nettle HInde," continues 

Mr. Riley, "and that good-looking bay with three 

white feet Is Nutwood Maid, the dam of Bedouin and 

Battledore. The small bay with a snip Is Notre Dame 

— she 's sister to Norfolk, sir, and Is In foal to Mor- 

temer— I think all our Lexington mares are bred to 

him. That big chestnut— the one behind Ratan— Is 

China, dam of Comanche, a colt Mr. Lorlllard sent to 

England." 

Across the road which divides the paddocks, far In 

one corner, two chestnuts with white legs 

c -.7-1 are grazing sociably together. Both are 
Sensation s Dam . . 

Lexingtons: the one with a blaze face is 
Glenrose, "not a great race mare, but full sister to Sen- 

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sation's dam," the studmaster explains — and he might 
have added "to Acrobat," and that she was from the 
family tracing to Medoc's dam, so many great per- 
formers have descended from It. The other mare Is 
Evadne, still shapely for her years. Here also are old 
Alice Ward, Sallle and Letola, daughters of Lexington 
all, but age Is showing Its marks upon them. 

Far out across the spreading pastures which, broken 
only by the black-painted fences, rest against the sky- 
line, a troop of mares can be seen walking 

^^^P J jj^ solid column, as though going to the 
Brood-mares ', & & & 

post for a race, as In other days. To reach 
them entails a roundabout journey, and climbing up 
again beside Mr. Cool, we are off for a drive. Wind- 
ing through the broad roads past "The Woods," oppo- 
site which some two hundred Berkshire 
A Drive Through . n • • . i 

th P dd k pigs are wallowmg m the mire; past one 

of the farm-houses, where a flock of 
turkeys set up a furious gobbling, we emerge upon a 
spacious paddock dotted with well-grown saplings. A 
winner of the Dixie stakes Is browsing beneath them, 
for the heavy forehead of the Vandals, with star, brown 
coat, and high withers, is too reminiscent 
''At H " ^^ Vandallte to be mistaken. The cham- 
pion of 1874 has changed less than some 
of her sister matrons, and already has Hiawasse to her 
credit. On we stroll, and are told how Gerald's dam, 
Girl of the Period, died shortly after he was foaled, 

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and the hope of the cherry jacket for the Epsom Derby 
of '82 was put to "wet nurse" with another mare, yet 
grew to be "one of the finest gallopers that ever saw 
light at Rancocas." 

We find Sly Dance pining in solitude in one corner, 
but looking rough and hearty. The other mares ostra- 
cise her, as she "still smells of the train- 

/ / ing stable," so Mr. Riley explains. It is a 

Agenoria * ^ . 

large and aristocratic concourse that is 
roaming through the paddock, for here are two win- 
ners of the Monmouth Oaks, and the delicate New- 
minster head and speckled coronets are those of 
Agenoria, sister to Pizarro and mother of Pontiac. In- 
deed, it is quite a gathering of notabili- 

, ^ ,.» ■' ties — "the mothers of the Gracchi." A 
the Uracchi 

commanding brown-chestnut is Ontario 
by Bonnie Scotland and dam of McWhirter. The Eng- 
lish mare Jessie, admired for her size and length, is a 
daughter of Dundee, the gamest "runner up" in the 
history of the Derby; but her lop-ears speak 

, ry „ loudly of Melbourne. We are unable to 

bourne tar ■' 

find Zoo Zoo, but Lizzie Lucas is here, and 
with the march of time has become almost snow-white, 
with scarce a trace of the iron-grey that defeated Tom 
Bowling that long ago day at Monmouth Park. There 

is nothing that gives so much "character" 

Lizzie Lucas ^ ^1 • ^ • r 

to the picture as a grey mare ui a group or 

brood-mares, and Lizzie has already "given hostages to 

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fortune" as the dam of Chimera and Cerise, the latter 
destined to foal the "crack" Morello. 

Matchless is here, too, one of the few surviving 
Stockwell mares, and Gondola, the dam of Gonfalon, 

carries her Falsetto burden heavily. "For 

Matchless and r i. u u r i j • t 

^ , , five years past she has roaled m lanu- 

Gondola . . 

ary," whispers the Doctor. Mr. Riley 

"presents" (as the theatrical managers say of their 
stars) Highland Lassie, a lovely seal-brown mare by 
Blair Athol, as "one of those Mr. Lorillard bought 
at the Middle Park sale in England." The large bay, 
whose legs show marks of firing, is Virginia by Not- 
tingham, and "the mare with a wart 
-TAe Mare with ^^j^^. j^^^. j^^ is Genista by King Tom," 

a Wart Under a/t -n-i • ut-i 

TT 7 » as Mr. Kiley contmues. 1 he mare 

tier Jaw •' 

with the roan fetlock (all her foals have 
it) is Refreshment by Caterer." The dapple-coated 
Fannie Ludlow, which we had not seen for many years, 
is now introduced as "the grandam of Foxhall." Lou- 
lanier no longer shows the beautiful network of veins 

she did when in training, especially after 

The Grandam , , n ^u- i • 

rr7 f ir a race, when her unusually thm skm 

of Foxhall ^ 

caused them to stand out so prominently; 
while the mark of the iron is the most marked feature 
of Aspasia by Beadsman, "one of Sir Joseph HawJey's 
breeding." 

Dear old acquaintances of the days of silk and 
satin! Explosion and Pera, the one famous as the 

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dam of the $29,000 Dewdrop, the other as "a full sis- 
ter to Iroquois," are renewing old friendships and races 

in which they competed together in training 

Pera and j t? a ' •> j'^* • u* - -• n 

r. f . days. Explosion s condition is interesting. 
Explosion . 

but Pera looks as if the cheque would be re- 
turned "no funds." The white face of Blue Stocking, 
daughter of the renowned Thormanby and half sister 
to Blue Gown — "Derby winners on both sides the 
house," some one says— comes forward to be noticed, 
and Perfection also loiters about to be patted, looking 
little like "the maid lithe-limbed" who in the Juvenile 
Stakes a few years before lowered the colors of Duke 
of Magenta, whose shrill neigh from his paddock be- 
yond, answered by Second Hand, implies her feelings 
as honored by attentions she cannot fail to understand. 
Unable to recognize several of the others, we turn 
away, and, taking the wagon, speed over the hill to 
where The Banshee and Coquette hold forth. Each 
has an ample paddock by herself, as both are blind; 
and, as we approach, the roll of the wagon causes The 
Banshee to raise her sightless eyes and turn 

, ^ her head in a listening attitude, as does the 

and Coquette ^ ° 

rich-coated Coquette. We had not seen 
The Banshee since, as a small boy on a day memorable 
for a hailstorm of unusual violence, we saw her win the 
Westchester Cup at Jerome Park over a "crack" field; 
and it was pathetic to watch her now, so changed and 
blind. The familiar white face — aye, and the "rat- 

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tail" — are there; but there is little else to recall the 
heroine of the Travers Stakes of 1868. 

But the autumn sun has long since set, the "light 
thickens," and the belated "crow makes wing to the 
rooky wood," as Macbeth says, and we end our inspec- 
tion with three of Lexington's oldest daughters— Carrie 
Atherton, Nellie Grey and Minnie Minor, the dams of 
Janet Norton, Basil and Wanda. The Lexingtons are 

a long-lived race, but there is a prejudice 
Minnie Minor . ^ , ^^7% r» , i 

J Ar //• r- agamst aged mares. When rretender 
and Nellie Grey ° ° 

was favorite for the English Derby, the 
learned Dr. Shorthouse declared that no colt from 
a mare over twenty years old could win a Derby. But 
Pretender did; and Minnie Minor was twenty-one when 
she foaled Wanda. Minnie Minor scarce looked her 
age as she stood with Nellie Grey close by the stables 
for shelter, with their backs to the raw northeast wind, 
which had sprung up and came in gusts around the cor- 
ner; but time had laid its hand heavily on Nellie Grey, 
gaunt and shrunken, her withers sharper than ever, and 
her days evidently numbered. 

^ We fain would linger in the paddocks, for it was 
something to have seen gathered together the dams of 
Hindoo, Thora, Wanda, Girofle, Basil, Pontiac, Dew- 
drop, Chimera, Hiawasse, Wallenstein and Day Star, 
reminding us of the remark of the mother of Themis- 
tocles the Athenian— her sons enrolled her in the lists 
of fame. To one whose favorite studies are the Stud 

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Book and Racing Calendar, these "mothers of the 
cherry jacket" bring a flood of pleasant reminiscence. 
Jerome Park may become a reservoir, Monmouth a 
corn-field, and Morris Park may yield to local im- 
provements, while the fate of Sheepshead Bay and 
Gravesend may be trembling in the balance; but there 
are still some of us who look back fondly upon the 
Lorillard era as a glorious memory when the "cherry 
and black" banner was a power on the race-course, and 
upon Rancocas as a shrine of blood-horse devotion to 
which the racing enthusiast turned his face with almost 
the veneration with which the Mussulman turns his to 
Mecca. 



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CHAPTER XI 
THE RACING SEASON OF 1883 

The blood in his veins is the best on both sides; 

He traces to Camel and Banter. 
He '11 gallop them blind, and whatever betides, 

He '11 settle the lot in a canter. 

PIZARRO was again the hope of the Lorillard 
stable In 1883, and a more perfect type of the 
thoroughbred race-horse has never appeared under 
"silk." In color a rich bay with black points, the 
only marks about him were a sprinkling of grey hair 
around his flanks and loins. His head was not on the 
Roman model of his grandsire Rataplan, for It had all 
the exquisite beauty of Newmlnster's without Its deli- 
cacy: a small but square muzzle, large nostrils 

Pirarro ' o 

which after a gallop flared like the mouth of a 
trumpet, broad forehead, large eyes, high cheeks, wide 
and deep In the jowl; the whole set upon a long but 
muscular neck, clean In the throttle, the gullet clearly 
defined. The neck sank Imperceptibly Into long shoul- 
ders, with deep brisket and great length of bridle. He 
had good round ribs, back and loins as strong as a bull's, 

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and fine long quarters. His forearm was large, his legs 

broad and flat, with long pasterns and feet very open at 

the heel, as his plate in our collection shows. His 

breeding was very fashionable, as his dam was a sister 

to Mandragora, the dam of Apology, the St. Leger 

winner, and to Mineral, the dam of Wenlock and Kis- 

ber, the St. Leger and Derby winners of 1872 and 

1876. It was through his sire, son of Newminster, he 

by Touchstone, that he "traces to Camel and Banter," 

and his death after only three seasons in the stud was 

a distinct loss to the racing blood of the country. 

The meeting of Pizarro and George Kinney for the 

Withers stakes at Jerome Park was an event to which 

the racing world looked forward for 

r,o months. All through the winter, when 

of 8^ , , 

icicles hung over the stable doors, wher- 
ever racing men gathered, whether in the lobbies of 
the Broadway hotels or the warm little snuggeries 
of the road-houses, it had been one of the chief topics 
of discussion. 

At that period the Jerome Park trainers were wont 
to gather winter evenings at Jim Thompson's on 
Jerome Avenue, and here we would listen with pleasure 
as our host recounted the triumphs of his old steeple- 
chase mare Lobelia. The snow was deep outside, but 
what cared we for the cold blasts of wind that roared 
and howled around the corners of the house without, as 
we gathered round the fire, while the kettle was singing 

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a cheerful winter tune, and Mr. Bathgate told of Fox- 
hall's Cambridgeshire! The house-dog lay dreaming 
on the rug, but opened his eyes as John Hyland gave 
an exciting recital of Bonnie Lizzie's Con- 

J^^y ^J nrress Hall Stakes. Sutcliffe's talk was of boy- 
Irainers ^ . r t-» • • 

hood days In England, of Rosicrucian, 

Marksman, and Hermit's Derby; and Walter Rollins 
had a good word for Gen. Monroe. But soon the 
great case of George Kinney vs. PIzarro was called 
and "submitted to the jury" ; and once started, it be- 
came the only topic. The merits of the rivals for the 
Withers Stakes were discussed as if the fate of the na- 
tion was involved; but in the end "the jury" always 
"disagreed." 

Fordham became quite a little Newmarket during 
the Jerome Park era. Many owners, trainers, and 
jockeys lived there; and as they mixed freely with the 
townspeople, the latter became saturated with the spirit 
of racing. It was about this time that a stranger, an 
old gentleman, inquired of Mr. Redding, the station 
agent, If a town election was pending. Upon being 
told "not this time of the year," he replied that during 

the few hours he had been in Fordham 

Local Interest in 1 1 i i j i_ j i r 

, „ ... , all he had heard spoken of was some 
the Race Mistaken ^ 

for an Election ^^^^ ^^ contest "between a man named 

George Kinney and another man by the 

name of Pizarrio, probably an Italian"; and men were 

"talking and betting over it on every corner." When 

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the station-agent explained that the Withers Stakes was 

the source of all the contention, the old gentleman rolled 

his eyes at the idea of a "horse race," and turned away, 

declaring men might put their time and money to better 

purpose. 

The spring had come, and with it came the bold 

George Kinney to Jerome Park, while from Rancocas 

each day brought tidings of the great work of Pizarro. 

Jerome Park, always picturesque, was 
The Withers , i i t 

r oo never more so than now; dandelions span- 

oj 1883 \ 

gled the long meadow where the bobolinks 
were warbling; the Club-house "Bluff" was a picture 
of rock and dell, the tall grass waving in the breeze 
that swept from the south, and the blossoms of the 
cherry and the peach, the apple and the violet, filled 
the morning air with delicious perfume. 

No race for the Withers had attracted so much at- 
tention since 1879, when Spendthrift met Harold. It 
was one of those fashionable assemblages such as 
marked the early history of Jerome Park when 

Fifth Avenue sends out, in satins arrayed, 

Its Junos and Venuses, matron and maid; 
And from all Murray Hill (and the other hills, too) 

Come eyes that are hazel, brown, black, grey, and blue. 

All sorts of rumors were current, one that Matt 
Byrnes had stolen out at 2 o'clock in the morning and 
given Pizarro his trial by moonlight, under the im- 
pression that Jerome Park slept; but there were several 



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pairs of eyes In the stand. George Kinney was the first 

to appear, heavily blanketed. He did 

A Trial in ^ '\ , r • j ^.u 

/ )r>r f I two miles at a rair pace, and then re- 
the Moonlight . ^ ' 

turned to the ring near the stables. He 
broke out into a clear and profuse perspiration as Rowe 
anxiously superintended his rubbing. McLaughlin, in 

a new red jacket, seemed impressed with 

Pizarro and , u * ^ c i.u ' u 

^ TT. the importance or the occasion, as when 

heorge Ktnney ^ 

Fred Carter made some jocular remark 
he only made a sickly effort at smiling, and moved 
away. Then Pizarro was seen on the far side. He, 
too, was heavily clothed, and galloped a mile. Then 
Feakes dismounted and walked to the stand. Up went 
Feakes again, cantered to the head of the stretch and 
"breezed" to the stand. 

The action of the two colts was quite a contrast. 
Pizarro moved, as he always did, freely with a long 
stride and close to the ground. George Kinney's action 
was about as bad as could be imagined. It seemed la- 
bored, full of enormous effort, but luckily he had a 
great physique to sustain it. He galloped with a bent 
knee and lifted high from the ground. Such action is 
a great expenditure of force. The less a horse "lifts" 
the better. But with all his defects of galloping, we 
always thought George Kinney one of the best horses 
we ever saw. Nature had given him a grand constitu- 
tion, great muscular power, joined to force of pro- 
pulsion, and it sustained him in an action that a more 



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delicate horse could not have sustained. His kinsman, 
Luke Blackburn, had similar defective action, but he 
also had the same enormous power to counteract it. 

And now, after months of discussion as to their 
merits, the rivals were at the post. Pizarro lashed out 
with his heels, and at the second attempt they were off. 
McLaughlin rose In his stirrups and gave Kinney a 
terrific cut with the whip, and was three lengths to the 
good In an instant. At the "Bluff" Feakes had brought 
Pizarro within a length of Kinney, and 
rf^-^^^ mne^ ^^ ^j^^^ turned for home the pair were on 
even terms. Amid great cheering, both 
jockeys began whipping. Head and head they came. 
Then Kinney swerved a trifle and there was a shout 
"He 's beaten," but he drew away again as Feakes eased 
Pizarro when he found he was beaten, and Kinney was 
adjudged eleventh winner of the Withers. 

"They '11 have to bring a better colt than that from 
England to beat Kinney," said Mr. Phil Dwyer. 

"He was pretty close at times." 

"Yes," replied Mr. Dwyer, "at the club-house and 
on the lower turn. There 's a hill at both places. Rowe 
told Jimmy to ease our colt there, and each time 
Pizarro closed our colt always left him again." 

"My colt did not run to his trial form," said Mr. 
Lorillard. "He ran a faster trial and was n't as tired 
as he was to-day. He could have made a closer finish, 
but Feakes eased him when he saw he could not win." 



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"I beat him, and I did n't train mine In the moon- 
light, either," yelled Jimmy Rowe, referring, of course, 
to PIzarro's trial In the moonlight. Thus ended the 
great race for the eleventh Withers, the Dwyer stable 
boys escorting their colt to his stable In triumphal pro- 
cession, tossing up hats, palls, rubbing-cloths, and shout- 
ing like madmen. 

When the bell rang for the Belmont Stakes, PIzarro 
did not respond, and thus George Kinney won the 
"double event." PIzarro had his revenge in the Ocean 
Stakes at Monmouth when he defeated George Kinney 
by a length amid a scene of wild excitement, the Lorll- 

lard stable boys throwing up their hats, 

Pizarro Defeats , . ■, • i -i tt » 

j^. ^ cheermg and screammg, while rizarro s 

Kinney ° *^' 

negro rubber grabbed hold of the colt's 
tail and whooped like a Sioux Indian. Charlie Shauer, 
PIzarro's jockey, smiled when asked if he had any 
trouble winning. 

"Trouble? How?" he returned with true German 
stolidity. 

"In running Kinney down." 

"No; my colt had the most speed, but he could n't 
have stood another quarter." 

Victory could not stir the stolidity of the jockey. 
The Hibernian fluid of the trainer, however, responded 
more readily to the stimulus. Byrnes was a very 
happy man. "You want his plate? Well, sir, you shall 
have it. I knew he could beat Kinney at a mile. The 

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race at Fordham did n't discourage me. They had the 

laugh then. It 's our turn to-day." 

Three days later, for the Lorillard Stakes, a mile and 

a half, PIzarro was third to George Kinney; but he 

won the Eatontown Stakes, the Trenton Stakes, and ten 

races that season. He was better at a mile than beyond 

it. Drake Carter beat him for the Om- 

p , nibus Stakes, but Carter had the mark of 

d takes 

the whip on his flank. Yet Spellman, 
who rode him, said with a smile, "He had as good as a 
walk-over." 

"But you had to shake him up when Pizarro joined 
you on the turn." 

"Yes; they had told me such great stories of Pi- 
zarro's speed, I was afraid of him." 

"He clung to you." 

"I allowed him to do that— glad to have company. 
Drake Carter is a lazy horse, and runs best v/hen 
there 's a horse by his side. When I saw Shauer come 
up with Gonfalon, I called out, 'Can't you do any bet- 
ter?' 'Oh, yes,' said he. 'Go on, then,' said I, 'my 
horse is n't galloping,' but he could n't do a bit more." 

It was ever Mr. Lorillard's policy, if somebody had 

a better horse than his, to buy it, and im- 

n. L /- X mediately after the race he was seen in 
Drake Carter \ 

consultation with Green Morris. Then 
they adjourned to the secretary's office. "I 've sold 
him," said Mr. Morris when he came out; "$17,500. 



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He 's worth $20,000, but Mr. Lorlllard wanted him 
so badly I would n't stand on a few thousands." 

Charles Shauer, who rode many races for the stable 
at this time, was a German, born in 1856. He came to 
America with his parents at the age of ten, 
settling in Cincinnati. Unlike Hayward, 
Feakes or Barbee, he had not learned his art in a 
skilled school, but was self-taught. Indeed, it was 
known that Shauer began with racing as a stable cook, 
but learning to ride horses, he forsook 

The sooty yoke of kitchen vassalage, 

and rode with success the horse Jack Harkaway for 
Mr. Beachy at the Ohio meetings. He became famous 
by winning the Kentucky Derby on Lord Murphy, and, 
coming East, his splendid handling of Uncas for the 
Grand National caused Mr. Lorillard to engage him. 
An event of importance was the return of Iroquois 
from England. On June 21 he had won the Stock- 
bridge Cup. On June 27, with Aranza and Parthenia, 
he sailed on the ship Erin for New York, reaching here 
July II, and at once joined the stable at Monmouth 
Park, where Iroquois was exhibited on a 

_ . ^ race day to the public, "to let them see what 
Iroquois to . . 

America ^ Derby winner looked like." There was a 

general desire to see Iroquois measure 
strides with the "cracks" of his native land. Accord- 
ingly, a special, called the Monmouth Stakes, i^ 



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miles, brought Iroquois, Monitor, Eole, Miss Wood- 
ford and George Kinney to the post. The prestige of 
the Derby winner made him favorite even against a 
field of such amazing quality. It was whispered that 
he had broken blood-vessels in England, and In conse- 
quence Tom Cannon had been unable to give him 
enough work to enable him to stay a distance. But 
his prestige prevailed. 

The race resulted in George Kinney winning, with 
Eole second, Iroquois third. Many blamed Feakes for 
making two attempts to come through instead of one, 
but Feakes explained: "I was cut off by the horses 
swinging wide after passing the half-mile post, and 
again turning for home, when I had to pull out to the 
middle of the track. I called to Hughes and to Hay- 
ward to let me through, but when they did It was too 
late." 

Three days later the race was renewed. Drake 
Carter accompanied Iroquois this time, and again Iro- 
quois was favorite. Drake Carter made pace, Iroquois 
lying back, but he ran a worse race than before, as 

Eole won, with George Kinney second, 

A "Crack" . . . . 

r.. ,, Monitor third; the Lorillard pair unplaced. 

Iroquois ran only once afterward — third to 

Miss Woodford for the PImlIco Stakes at Baltimore. 

It was found impossible to get him In proper condition 

for a distance race, owing to breaking blood-vessels, 

and he retired with the season. 



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The principal events won by the stable in 1883 were 

the Ocean, Eatontown, and Trenton Stakes by Pizarro ; 

the Palisade by Gonfalon; the Optional by Blossom; 

the Passaic by Breeze; the Homebred by Huron; the 

Champagne and Arlington by Leo ; the Washington by 

Parole, and the Potomac by Drake Carter. Parole, 

ten years, won seven races. Aranza won ten races. She 

was not a success in England. Like many horses which 

had begun life on the prepared dirt tracks in America, 

she was never at home on the turf, but returned to 

America she regained her form. It Is true Parole 

and Iroquois raced well on turf abroad, but they were 

Leamingtons and horses of light, high action; while 

Aranza, like most Bonnie Scotlands, ran with more 

muscular effort. The Bonnie Scotlands 

?"f frt""^' were not a success In England; while 
for the Mud . .,1.1 j 

in America, especially m heavy ground, 

they were celebrated, and "a Bonnie Scotland in the 

mud" became a proverb. 

It was in 1883 that Mr. Lorillard conceived the idea 
of the Champion Stallion Stakes for three-year-olds. 
It was thrown open to the race-course making the high- 
est bid. The Coney Island Club bid $6000, but the 
Louisville Club bid $10,575. It was won by Miss 
Woodford. Mr. Lorillard then opened the Champion 
Stallion Stakes for 1884 to be run at Monmouth for 
two-year-olds. 

During the season, Mr. Lorillard offered Dwyer 

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Brothers $4000 for Miss Woodford for breeding pur- 
poses when she was retired; but It was refused. How- 
ever, he purchased of his brother the famous Spin- 
away, In foal to Glenmore. NImrod and Inconstant 
he gave to his son, Mr. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., who was 
forming a stable. Barrett was sold to Mr. Sands. 
The stable during 1883 won 60 races and $60,082. 

Breeze was a filly of great speed and won eight 
races, among them the Passaic Stakes at Monmouth, 
for which the famous "Father Bill" Daly brought from 
Brighton Beach the filly Swift, which had beaten every- 
thing at Brighton. An Immense following of Brlghton- 
Ites came with him, and they backed Swift "off the 
boards," believing It the "good thing" of the season. 
Breeze won by six lengths. It was the Introduction to 
Monmouth of the since famous "Snapper" Garrison 
— "the Archer of Brighton Beach," as his friends called 
him. Garrison rode Swift, and had announced that as 
he "did n't expect to ride at Monmouth, he would beat 
the start, even If they ruled him off for doing It." But 
when the flag fell. Garrison and Swift 

"^t;j ^'"" were nearly left and badly beaten. The 
and Qjarrison -^ ■' ^ 

meeting between "Father Bill" and the 
jockey after the race was a study of "the human face 
divine." Mr. Daly was revolving something In his 
mind as he stood at the head of his devoted band of 
Brightonltes. Finally the storm burst. 
"It 's a swhate plum ye are." 



"CHERRY AND BLACK" 

"I could n't help it," pleaded the jockey. 

"Cud n't help It? Shure, an' ye 're not well enough 
eddlcated t' be ridin' wud t' lolkes o' t' aristocrats down 
here. Yez be well enough fur t' Beach. An' ye think ye 
know 't all. Was n't 01 after givin' ye Instructchuns? 
Did n't OI tell ye t' git off wud Lorylard's jock an' do 
'Im up t' th' Quane's taste? An' Insthead o' that ye sit 
sthlll wud yer oyes as big as me chew fists, an' let 'em 
bate ye t' th' devil an' gone, bad scran to you !" 

"What 's the trouble, BUI; left again?" chimed In 
Sam Bryant. 

"Lift, Is It? An' It 's not th' furst tolme. Was n't 
Pink Cuss [PIncus] afther lavln' Red Fox a Chuse- 
day? Shure, a poor man has no show. There 's alter- 
glther tew much Fifth Avenoo an' Murray's Hill here, 
an' It 's got fur t' be reggerlated." 



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CHAPTER XII 
THE RACING SEASON OF 1884 

What is this 
That rises like the issue of a king, 
And wears upon her baby-brow the round 
And top of sovereignty? Macbeth, Act iv. 

SUBURBAN DAY, 1884, marked the first appear- 
ance of the get of the Imported horse Mortemer. 
This was none other than the since renowned Wanda, 
daughter of old Minnie Minor by Lexington. Wanda 
finished second to Florio, but a few days 
^ ^ ^ later Wanda won the Surf Stakes, beating 
thirteen, including Florio. Mr. Lorillard 
was immensely pleased. 

"Minnie Minor is an old mare, but I find she con- 
tinues to foal fast ones. She has a yearling colt, a full 
brother to Wanda, and I consider him the finest colt at 
Rancocas," he observed. 

"Wanda is not quick at the start." 
"Perhaps not, but she has the speed. She did the 
last furlong of her trial in eleven seconds. She and 
Bahama were the most forward in condition. The 
others of my lot are rather large." 



"CHERRY AND BLACK" 

''That was said to be the chief fault of the Morte- 
mers In France." 

"So I have heard," replied Mr. Lorlllard. "I have 
several very large ones, Loulanler's filly especially. 
You can't do much with such large two-year-olds." 

Wanda was unplaced for the Hopeful and July 
Stakes, but she won the Tyro, with her mate Cholula 
second, and It was the same In the race for the Sea- 
bright stakes, when McLaughlin rode her. But the 
Champion Stallion Stakes was Wanda's 

f ^, crowning achievement. It brought the 

the Lhampion ^ ° ° 

pick of the country to the post. Mr. 
Lorlllard started Wanda and Chimera, but Mr. Bald- 
win came from Saratoga with the Callfornla-bred trio. 
Mission Belle, Volante and Verano, which had swept 
all before them In the West. The Western men came 
on from Saratoga In hundreds to back them. When 
the horses emerged from the maple grove, they were 
certainly Impressive, led by grooms, followed by Isaac 
Murphy, Blaylock and Holloway In the "black and 
red" of Santa Anita, and after them a great crowd. 

"What do you think of them?" asked Mr. Lorlllard, 
eyeing them closely. 

"Wonderfully well-grown lot." 

"Do you think they '11 beat me? You have seen them 
at Saratoga." 

No ; we had not seen them race. 

"They are splendidly grown and developed," con- 



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tinued Mr. L., "but while they are highly furnished, 
they are not highly finished. You understand— they 
lack quality." 

There were loud cheers when the three Californians 
took the lead, but on the turn Wanda's white face was 
seen coming through, and a cheer rose as she shot to 
the front, and coming away, won by three lengths. 
Wanda's return to scales was the scene of an uproar 
that caused the filly to rear, and the judge had to ask 
the people to suppress their cheering. The defeat of 
Mission Belle was a surprise. Holloway, who rode 
her, said she was nervous. Mr. Baldwin was not satis- 
fied, and there was talk of a match. Mr. Lorillard 
when approached said, "No proposition for a match 
has been made to me, and as my filly won, I could 
hardly make one to Mr. Baldwin." 

"It is complained that the Californians were badly 
ridden." 

"They certainly were raced hard from the start." 

"So Mr. Baldwin thinks, and says they can 

Talk of Hnhpffr-r" 

a Match ^^ ^^"^'^• 

"If he wants another race I shall not de- 
cline," responded Mr. Lorillard. "I am willing to 
make a match for from $5000 to $25,000 a side, here 
or at Sheepshead Bay." 

Nothing came of the talk, and a week later Goano, 
who had run second to Wanda, beat her for the Select 
Stakes. But Wanda won all her races after that, the 



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Homebred, the Flatbush, the Central, and the Electric, 

and retired champion two-year-old of the year. 

In the Flatbush the card had Wanda carrying 5 lbs. 

penalty for "having won $2000 since Aug. 15." Wanda 

had won the Homebred Produce. Mr. Lorlllard 

claimed she did not Incur a penalty as the forfeits due 

by barren mares could not be calculated, 

D • T the entry of a barren mare belno: void. 

Kaang La'w ■' ^ 

There had been 20 barren mares, and 
their forfeits, if counted, would make the race worth 
$500 more than it actually was. Hence Wanda was 
allowed to start without the penalty. 

Wanda was not alone In spreading the fame of Mor- 
temer. Chimera, a magnificent filly, a dappled chest- 
nut with a star and snip, won the Red Bank Stakes. She 
stood 16.1^, and It was feared "she was too big," and 
after winning the Moet & Chandon was retired. 
Chimera was from the grey mare Lizzie Lucas by 

Australian. Cholula, a chestnut colt by 
Chid Mortemer from Fannie Ludlow by Eclipse, 

was another, but of rather a different type 
from the other Mortemers. He was not so large, but 
more compact, with rather straight pasterns. He won 
the Atlantic Stakes and was a thoroughly good one, but 
was used as pacemaker for Wanda and Chimera much 
too often, and "trained off." Exile, by Mortemer from 
Second Hand by Stockwell, was one of the few bays 
Mortemer sired, but was marked like him — a star and 

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stripe with near hind pastern white. He was strongly 
made, with great power In his quarters and an exuber- 
ance of animal spirits that often made him clear the 
paddock with his heels. He won several races, and 
trained on for many seasons, winning the Brooklyn 
Handicap of 1889 for Wm. Lakeland. 

Unrest, a chestnut by Mortemer from Letola 
by Lexington, was a fine filly. Mr. Lorlllard, how- 
ever, Insisted that DIone was a better one. 

"I believe Unrest can give DIone weight and beat 

her," said Matt Byrnes. 

"You are prejudiced," replied Mr. 

The Case of Lorlllard. "I '11 bet a hundred dollars 

Unrest vs. Utone 

—no, I '11 bet you a hat (I don t want 

to take your money) that Unrest can't give DIone a 

pound." 

"All right, sir," said Byrnes, "I '11 take Unrest to 
give DIone 12 lbs., and Olney to ride DIone." 

"Very well," answered Mr. Lorlllard, "there 's a 
party of friends coming here next week, and we will 
show them a race." 

The friends came. Olney was given the Inside posi- 
tion with DIone. The stable lad on Unrest was told to 
wait. DIone led until a furlong from home, and Mr. 
Lorlllard was having a great laugh at Byrnes, when 
Unrest passed and beat DIone with ease. Mr. Lorll- 
lard paid his bet, said he "was mistaken," lit his cigar 
and dismissed the matter. 

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The since famous Suburban was Inaugurated this 
season, and Pizarro with 124 lbs. was the candidate of 
the "cherry and black." In the preliminary canter he 
cut up badly, lashing out with his heels, and in the race 
he fell out of it after going a mile. His temper had 
become bad, and a few days after the race he pulled 
up lame. He had developed a peculiar lame- 

tzarros ^^^^ j^ ^^^ shoulder, and the "vets" said it 
Lameness 

was rheumatism. But before his lameness 

developed his spirits were so high that he rebelled at 
being ridden, and his Suburban preparation was a 
world of trouble. Finding that light jockeys could not 
control him, they engaged Charlie Sait, the steeple- 
chase jockey, to ride him at exercise. Sait, who weighed 
about 160 lbs., mastered him, but it is a question if it 
did not cause his lameness. As a sire, Pizarro served 
two or three seasons; he got Pessara, the Metropolitan 
winner, and Reckon, one of the best mares of her day. 
Aranza won nine races that season. Long after she 
returned from England she would not try, except when 
she could lead. "We could n't win a waiting race with 
her," explained Mr. Lorillard. "We tried it on sev- 
eral occasions, and she 'd always quit." 

"Was it the English campaign that 

Aranza Recovers i , -5,, 

Tj r7 soured her.'' 

Mer torm 

"That I have no means of know- 
ing," he answered, "but I believe she 's returning to 
her form as a three-year-old." 

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''George Rice, who saw her in the West, said she 
was the best three-year-old filly he ever saw." 

"So she was represented to me," said Mr. Lorillard. 
"When I bought her she could beat all my horses. They 
say mares which have lost their form seldom recover it, 
but since we learned how to place this mare, she 's like 
her old self." 

Drake Carter proved a much better four than a 
three-year-old to the Lorillard stable. His victory for 
the Autumn Cup, three miles in 5.24, was so good that 
his match with Miss Woodford was the result, the 
newspapers having clamored for such a race. 

"Do you want to run your mare against Drake Car- 
ter?" asked Mr. Lorillard. 

"If the conditions suited," replied Mr. Dwyer. 

"Well, now I '11 tell you, Dwyer," 

Drake Carter and j tv/t t mi j u 

Kjr- rrz ir J rcsumcd Mr. Lorillard, suppose we 

Mtss IVoodford ^^ 

make a match to be run next week— 
your mare is in condition, is n't she?" 

"I think we can get her ready," replied Mr. Dwyer, 
smiling at the idea. 

"Very well. Let it be $5000 a side, $1500 forfeit, 
three miles or two and a half." 

"Make it two and a half." 

"Allright. Mr.Lawrencewilldrawupthe conditions." 

Thus the match was made; but despite the fact that 
Drake Carter did the best trial, the mare won easily 
and repeated it in two mile heats a few days later. 

Cue;] 



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The Lorillard yearlings usually had as thorough 
"competitive examinations" for racing as the civil ser- 
vice is supposed to require. Their trials this season 
occurred during the Coney Island autumn meeting, and 
caused a regular hegira of jockeys to the New Jersey 

farm. In fact, several owners during the 

Trial of the - n j .. u ^ um ^u • 

y ,.'' meetmg were compelled to scratch their 

horses for want of light-weight jockeys, 
most of whom, it was reported on inquiry, had "gone to 
Rancocas to ride in Lorillard's trials." Mr. Lorillard 
was so well pleased with the trials of his Mortemer 
yearlings that he said he would be willing to make 
another campaign in England if he could obtain com- 
petent jockeys. He offered Rowe and McLaughlin 
$15,000 each per annum, with the option of sending 
them to England; but the trainer and jockey, after 
consulting with the Dwyers, declined to secede from 
their allegiance to the "red and blue," and Mr. Loril- 
lard remarked afterward, "I 'd have saved money if 
I 'd given them $50,000." 

Harris Olney, who rode so many races for the Loril- 
lard stable, was born at Manchester, Iowa, In 1865, 
and learned riding under Jacob Pincus. He 

^ rode his first race for Hon. Perry Belmont on 
Ada, 82 lbs., in 1880, and came to Mr. Lorillard in 
1881. In 1882 he won 6 out of 35 races; and in 1883 
he won 17 out of 68. His light weight gave him plenty 
to do In the stable riding exercise, trials and races. 



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In the course of the season of 1884, Mr. Lorlllard 
took his son Mr. N. G. Lorlllard as a partner In order 
to protect his stake engagements from being void In the 
event of his death, as under racing rules "rights and 
liabilities attach to the survivor." During the season 
the stable started in 181 races and won 39, with 38 
seconds, was 25 times third, and the winnings amounted 
to $84,202. The progeny of Mortemer won 21 races, 
and $49,500 In stakes and purses. 

William Hayward, while never under contract to 
Mr. Lorlllard, frequently rode for him, and was prob- 
ably the most artistic jockey that has ever appeared in 
this country. He was born at Northampton, England, 
in 1844, ^^^ fi^st attracted attention as a jockey in Mr. 
Merry's stable by winning the Stand Plate at Ascot on 
Buckstone in 1861, when he rode at 89 lbs. He came 
to America for the late Mr. M. H. Sanford in 1867, 
and his superb finish when he won the Westchester Cup 
of that year on Loadstone, beating Charles 

rr J LIttlefield on Onward by a neck, created a 
Hayward , •' ^ 

sensation. It was the first time the art of 
"niggling" was shown in America, where It became 
known as the "Newmarket roll." His finish winning the 
Saratoga Cup of 1868 on Lancaster was another con- 
spicuous demonstration of his ability, as was his West- 
chester Cup of 1 87 1, when he won with Preakness, 
beating Glenelg and Helmbold. He acquired a name 
for a "waiting race" and bringing a horse home by a 

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rush in the stretch, but in 1872 he showed he could "ride 
in front" when in the desperate race for the Maturity 
Stakes he won with Monarchist over Harry Bassett. 
His last great victory was in 1892, when he won the 
Futurity on Morello. While a most brilliant man in 
the saddle, he was the most careless on the ground. He 
had no ambition to push his claims. He had no valet, 
but appeared at the scale with his saddle on his arm. 
Few ever heard him use a rough expression. He was 
always modest, respectful and cautious in his comments. 
During the thirty years he rode races he won more of 
the principal events than any man of his generation, 
and retained the respect and confidence of his employ- 
ers no less than their admiration for his ability as a 
jockey. His "set to" was very wide, with more move- 
ment of the body than is usual with jockeys, and in 
bringing a tired horse home he had no superior, as he 
showed in the dead heat between Springbok and Preak- 
ness for the Saratoga Cup of 1875, when, as he said, "I 
eased my horse a quarter of a mile from home to let 
him get his wind, and it was all that saved him." 



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CHAPTER XIII 
THE RACING SEASON OF 1885 

And 'mid the flash of silks we scan 
A "cherry" jacket in the van — 

Hurrah! for the bold brown mare! 

Sir Francis Doyle. 

DEWDROP was a star of the first magnitude In 
the constellation of two-year-olds carrying the 
''cherry and black" jacket during the season of 1885. 
A brown filly by Falsetto from Explosion by Hampton 
Court, marked with a blaze and near fore 
^ " and both hind legs white nearly to her hocks, 
Falsetto could not have denied her. Nor, for that 
matter, could Explosion. She was marked like both 
parents. But Dewdrop had the Falsetto action, long 
and low, with her head down — quite in contrast with 
her companion Wanda, who galloped high, flitting over 
the ground like a sylph. Wanda was the hardier filly, 
Dewdrop rather delicate. Wanda had the greater 
burst of speed; Dewdrop's action Indicated greater ca- 
pacity for a distance. Dewdrop's nervousness cost her 
a race at the outset, she being left at the post. Charity 



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beat her for the Flatbush, but Dewdrop was conceding 
her lo lbs. For the Great Eastern, Dew- 
ew rops drop galloped away and won by four 

lengths from a field of twenty, Including 
Inspector B., Elkwood and Charity. She won the 
Nursery, beating BIggonet and Charity, and the Cham- 
pagne, beating Inspector B. In a canter. She was clearly 
champion of the year. 

"Do you recall what I told you some time since?" 
asked Mr. Lorlllard. 

We failed to remember. 

"Oh, you can't be so forgetful," he continued. "I 
said I had four two-year-olds, all of them first-class, 
that had never shown In public how good they were, 
because they had been sick, off and on, ever since 
spring. This filly Is one of them (never mind about 
the others— you can guess) . She was one of the last to 
take the epidemic at Coney Island In June, and was 
out of condition all the summer, or I would have had 
her out at Monmouth." 

"But she showed great form for the Great Eastern." 

"She was recovering. She should have won the Adieu 
Stakes, but Rawllnson was new In America and the 
jockeys rode all around him." 

"Then you consider her better now than In the Great 
Eastern?" 

"Decidedly; In her trial she won pulled double from 
horses that a month ago gave her all she could do." 



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"Many of the horsemen consider her better than 
any of the Mortemers." 

"Yes," returned Mr. Lorlllard, "I know there 's a 
prejudice against the Mortemers. Somebody will have 

to pay for that yet. There was just such 

A Chat about • j. • ^ x.i- t • i. 

T) / a prejudice agamst the Leammgtons 

years ago. But I am glad they like Dew- 
drop, for it will help the sale of Mr. Alexander's Fal- 
setto colts. You know I sold Falsetto to him before 
Dewdrop was foaled." 

"Dewdrop's markings are almost an exact reproduc- 
tion of Falsetto's." 

"I think they are; but her dam Explosion has this 
season foaled a brown filly marked the same as Dew- 
drop, and it is by Mortemer. Explosion was a speedy 
mare, but had small 'cuppy' feet. I purchased her at 
Mr. Bernard's sale for only $250, and everything she 
has foaled has won races. But about the Mortemers: 
I have a lot of them, and if any one thinks he can beat 
them, I will match my stable against any for two-year- 
olds next season, to name at the post, $5000 a side. 
Or, I will name a yearling now against any in the 
country." 

Wanda was Mr. Lorillard's principal winner in 
1885 — four races and $29,640 being her share. She 
began badly, unplaced for the Swift Stakes, and was 
second to Miss Woodford for the Coney Island Stakes. 
She had an easy victory for the Mermaid, but her suc- 

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cess for the LorlUard Stakes, value $18,530, was when 

she was at her best, beating Pardee, Tyrant, Bersan, 

Ten Stone, Brookwood and others. The 
Wanda Wins ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ j^ ^ ^j^l^j^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ 

the LonUara , . , . . \ 

of the heaviest betting races ot the year. 

The Philadelphia contingent backed Brookwood. Ber- 
san, fresh from his Kentucky triumphs, had a large 
Western following. Mr. Lorillard had a good bet on 
Wanda. The Californians were on Mr. Haggin's 
Tyrant. Mr. Bernard must have thought highly of 
Goano, as he offered McLaughlin $1000 if he could 
win with him. 

In the race, Tyrant ran with the same easy lope he 
had when he won the Withers and Belmont, but col- 
lapsed when it came to a finish. Bersan had done too 
much in the West, and looked light and over-marked. 
Wanda laid away, and coming at the finish, won. Par- 
dee ran a great race, finishing second 

IS ST'" ^""^ ^^'"P^^'S ^^'^^^' ^^"^^"^ ^^'^^^^ ^'' 
plate. Mr. Lorillard was radiant. To 

win the stakes named in his honor had been his ambi- 
tion for several years, during which he had contributed 
$20,000 to them. 

"I felt all along," said he, "that Wanda at her best 
would be champion of the year. Seeing so many horses 
at exercise at Sheepshead Bay made her nervous and 
upset her." 

"You had confidence in her to-day?" 



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"I backed her at 5 to 2. Her trial was better than 
any but Pardee's." 

"Then you class her best of the year?" 

"Yes, but I have another that I believe can give her 
weight and beat her." 

"It 's Wanda's reserve of speed that wins her races," 
remarked Mr. John F. Purdy. 

"Well," returned Mr. Lorillard, "I have always 
thought Wanda could outrun any horse living for a 
quarter of a mile. She 's like Parole in that. She 
can't gallop in heavy ground — she strides too long. 
Cholula can race in mud, but not Wanda." 

Wanda had no trouble winning the Monmouth Oaks, 
but before the West End, fearing she had been in- 
dulged, Byrnes gave her a hard gallop in 2.40. After 
that she scoured. Olney, her jockey, having been sus- 
pended, Feakes was given the mount, and laid back so 
far that he could not overtake East Lynne, and a dead 
heat was the result. Mr. Lorillard wished to divide, 
as he expected to start Wanda for the Omnibus Stakes, 
but Mr. Bernard declined and in the "run off" Wanda 
only beat East Lynne by a head. 

Wanda never won again. A ringbone had begun to 

develop; it was noticeable the day of the race with 

East Lynne, and it drove her out of train- 

fW A ^"^' Wanda was a bright chestnut with a 

crooked blaze in her face and near hind leg 

white to the hock. She was a tall mare, and lengthy as 

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well. She had a rather "tucked up" appearance In the 
flanks, and stood high on the leg; some would have 
called her ungainly, but this was due to her neck "dip- 
ping" a trifle as it came out of her shoulders— a feature 
that never adds to beauty in a horse. Seen in action, 
she was another being— it was smooth, wire-hung and 
frictionless. She seemed scarcely to touch the ground 
— as Matt Byrnes put it, "She acts as if the ground 
was n't good enough for her" — and her stride, very long 
and elastic, was never known to shorten under stress of 
pace. She was the first horse Mr. Lorillard tried with 
aluminum plates made by Tiffany & Co. They suited 
her light action, but when tried on Drake Carter they 
were an utter failure. In the stud, Wanda transmitted 
her excellence; for, when bred to Hanover, she pro- 
duced Urania, a fine mare which, bred to Meddler, pro- 
duced Armenia, winner of the Matrons Stakes. Ar- 
menia, taken to France and bred to Rabelais, produced 
Mr. Duryea's Durbar, winner of the Epsom Derby of 

1914. 

When Mr. Lorillard stated that he had "another" 
that "could give Wanda weight and a beating," we had 
reason to suspect he referred to Katrine, a chestnut 
daughter of Mortemer and Loulanier by Lever; and 
so it proved. While Wanda was winning he 
Katrine repeatedly referred to "a better one"; and 
when Wanda won the Stallion Stakes the previous year, 
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start the 'better one' he 's always talking about?" But 
Katrine did not see the post until three years old, when 
she started for the Emporium, 2 to i favorite over a 
large field. She ran unplaced, and it was claimed she 
had been shut in on the rail. She was again beaten 
for the Stockton Stakes, which Tyrant won, and there 
were claims of foul riding. Mr. Cassatt claimed 
Brookwood had been fouled and made Feakes lodge a 
complaint: but it was too late; the judges had left the 
stand. 

"Some action should have been taken; my colt was 
fouled," said Mr. Cassatt. 

"If Brookwood had won there would have been a 
complaint," replied Mr. Galway. 

"How so?" queried Mr. Cassatt. 

"He and Goano fouled Katrine." 

"Yes, they squeezed my filly on to the rails," ex- 
claimed Mr. Lorillard. "My trainer says she was not 
as good by 10 lbs. as she was at Coney Island. But 
that is n't the point. She showed enough speed if the 
other jockeys had n't interfered with her." 

For the Barnegat Stakes Katrine was again a favor- 
ite. "I am going to try a different plan," said Mr. 
Lorillard. "I have told Olney to go to the front when 
the flag falls, and stay there— if he can." 

"That is a severe task." 

"It is," he answered, "but in her last race they 
crowded her. By keeping in front they cannot do that." 



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Olney rode to orders, but Katrine only finished third. 
For the Stevens Stakes she was still at 2 to i, but fin- 
ished third. For the Raritan Stakes she was favorite, 
but was beaten by Exile. Finally, in the Newark Stakes 
she "broke the ice" and won, but her hard races in hot 
weather had caused her to lose flesh. She recovered 
with a short rest, but in the race for the September 
Stakes she was cut down on her off hind leg. Olney 
lodged a complaint against McLaughlin, who rode 
Richmond, but it was not allowed. Katrine must have 
been born under an unlucky star, for cer- 
tainly Mr. Lorillard would not have 
backed her as he did unless she had shown him 
enough to justify it. He maintained to the last that 
she had beaten Wanda. Byrnes, who trained both 
fillies, confirmed it. Said he: "To give you an idea 
how good she was, before Pontiac won the Suburban 
we tried her with him at 5 lbs. for the year, and she 
beat him. We thought there was a mistake, and tried 
them again, this time at even weights, and she beat him 
again." 

It is a curious fact that no less than five first foals 
of their dams have won the Suburban— Gen. Monroe, 
Ben Brush, Africander, Hermis and Pontiac. Indeed, 
Pontiac's dam was only five years old at the time of 
foaling. Pontiac was a black colt imported in utero, 
but bred by Mr. Lorillard at Rancocas in 1881, a son 
of Pero Gomez and Agenoria, a sister to Pizarro, by 

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Adventurer. As a yearling, his trial of }i mile In 36 

was so good that he was shipped to Eng- 

^ ,. ^ . , land, but performed so indifferently that, 
Yearling Irial ' r ^ j 

as a three-year-old In 1884, he was 
brought home with several others. Byrnes was ordered 
to "sell the lot," but keep one of them "If he thought 
him worth it." It narrowed down to Choctaw and 
Pontlac which should be retained, and Byrnes' fondness 
for Pizarro decided him in favor of Pontlac as "the 
nephew of his uncle." 

Pontlac managed to get Into the Suburban of 1885 
with 102 lbs. and defeated a field of fifteen in a romp, 
Byrnes having to shout to Olney to "take It easy." It 
happened that it was one of those days when the au- 
thorities stopped the betting, or Mr. Lorillard would 
have won a fortune, as Emperor and Heva both won 
races and Pontlac had been kept so "dark" that It 
would have been good odds. Emperor, too, had failed 
in England. He had contracted feet, but Byrnes had 
fitted him with Dan Mace's foot-expander and brought 
him to a race. 

Winning the Suburban, Pontlac was "an exposed 

horse," and could not get Into another race with any 

advantage In weight. Yet he won seven races 

c t r that season, among them the Passaic, Eaton- 

ouburban ' » 

town and the Manhattan Handicap, and at 
a mile he defeated even the celebrated Miss Wood- 
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over a longer distance, a mile was Pontiac's limit when 
racing with horses of the best class. He was a beauti- 
ful horse, a fast horse and a sound one, a trifle "cow- 
hocked," but otherwise perfect in conformation. The 
Dwyers showed their estimate of him by paying $17,- 
500 when he was sold in February of '86, and he won 
many races. The late Mr. J. O. Donner purchased 
him, and he raced until nine years old, but in sprint 
races. He formed a part of the beautiful picture Mr. 
Donner had made in which the Ramapo paddock is 
shown with Pontiac wooing the famous Girofle over a 
rustic fence. As a sire, Pontiac's opportunities were 
limited, as the Ramapo stud contained but few mares; 
yet while there he sired Ramapo, who followed in his 
sire's footsteps and won the Suburban as well as the 
Metropolitan, and was a horse of high class. 

Cyclops and Savanac were two crack colts in the 
Lorillard stable of 1885. Both were sons of Mor- 
temer— Cyclops from Lizzie Lucas, and therefore 
brother to Chimera ; while Savanac was from Sly Boots 
by Rivoll. Savanac won the Sapling Stakes after a 
dead heat with Quito. He was sluggish, 

J ^ and Olney had to "bring influence to bear" 

davanac ^ ^ ^ ° 

in the shape of his whip. He was much of 
the Mortemer type, but rather short in the neck and 
had a heavy forehand. He was good in heavy ground, 
and it is usually the heavy-muscled ones that are. Cy- 
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home he beat Wanda at half a mile; but at Coney 
Island he took catarrhal fever, and was taken with 
Helmdal to Byrnes' farm at Eatontown and lost at least 
lOO lbs. They quite despaired of starting him, but 
with his fine constitution he rallied, and started for 
the Champion Stallion Stakes. He won the August, 
however. Cyclops was a grand colt in appearance; 
but, like the Mortemers, he had great size, and was 
hardly one of the kind that make the best two-year-olds. 
Walter H. was a two-year-old Mr. Lorillard pur- 
chased for $10,000 after he had beaten Dewdrop for 

the Adieu Stakes, "if only to get him out of 

the way, as he expressed it. He was a bay 
by Voltigeur from a Billet mare with a plain Vandal 
head, lean neck and good shoulders. Docile as a dog, 
he would follow his trainer to the paddock without 
bridle or head-stall. He began life in a humble way 
at Brighton, where he beat all comers; but he had no 
engagements and did nothing for the stable after his 
purchase. 

Late in the season Mr. Lorillard, disappointed with 
his riding talent, advertised in the English Calendar 
for a jockey, and Rawlinson, a jockey of some repute, 
came over. He donned the "cherry" jacket at Coney 

Island; but he was found too slow at the 
, T , post. Asked how he regarded American 

jockeys, he replied that he thought he could 
give the best of them 10 lbs. "And how much could 

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Fred Archer give you?" he was asked. "About lo 
lbs.," replied Rawllnson. This would make Archer 20 
lbs. better than Hayward or McLaughlin. It was 
what Henry Arthur Jones would call "an obvious error 
of classification," and Rawllnson was soon after al- 
lowed to return home. 

It was about this time, probably, that Mr. Lorlllard, 
speaking out of the bitterness of his disappointment, 
said: "It Is easier to secure a good horse than It Is to 
secure a good jockey. You tell them to wait, and they 
make the pace; you tell them to make the pace, and 
they are last to get away." "What can you expect?" 
answered Mr. Ward, who generally had a ready reply. 
"Many of them are no better than beggars to begin 
with, and If you put a beggar on horseback, you know 
he is likely to ride according to the old proverb." 

A curious effect of the Rules of Racing disqualified 

all Mr. Lorlllard's two-year-olds for the Homebred 

Produce Stakes at Monmouth. The conditions of the 

race required that the produce of the mares nominated 

should remain wholly the property of the subscriber 

until after the race or pay forfeit. The 

D . T race had closed in 1882, Mr. Lorll- 

Kaang Law 

lard having nominated 23 mares. But 
In 1884 he had made his son partner in his racing 
stable, which act disqualified the produce of all the 
mares named. 

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appeared after an absence of two years. Certainly no 

American race-horse was ever so popular as the brown 

gelding. Many who had cheered him eight or nine 

years before, when he defeated Ten 

. Broeck, gathered on the lawn to greet 

Appearance . 

him. "Here he comes!" they shouted, as 
the old hero was seen coming down the stretch, and the 
cheers rolled from the field stand, and, taken up by the 
lawn, amounted to an ovation. But while he ran sev- 
eral good races, the light of other days had failed, and 
Mr. Lorlllard gave him to Dr. Green. "Last summer 
at the farm," said Mr. Pierre Lorlllard, Jr., In explana- 
tion, "the old horse seemed unhappy. He had a large 
paddock, plenty of range, but the flies bothered him, so 
father concluded he would be better with the horses In 
training. He Improved at once, but he 's lost his speed. 
Father would have given him to me, but he thought I 
would race him, and he did n't care to see him beaten." 
Parole's career was a noteworthy one. He raced 
for ten seasons, starting In 137 races, of which he won 
59, his winnings amounting to $82,909.25. On the 
Fourth of July, 1891, he made his "posi- 
tively last appearance" before the public. 
It was at Morris Park, Dr. Green having asked per- 
mission to show the old hero as an attraction to many 
who had never seen him. Ed. Feakes, his old jockey, 
consented to don the cherry jacket In a parade between 
the races. Parole was eighteen years old, but showed 



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no appreciable signs of age as he galloped a quarter 
of a mile past the stand amid the cheers of his admirers 
and then passed forever into merited retirement. For 
years he was used as a hack at Rancocas, but he had 
become so fond of the companionship of people that 
he would come to the door of any of the houses on the 
farm and whinny until some one came out and noticed 
him. He had been granted *'the freedom of the city," 
like the conquerors of olden times, and had free range 
to go where he pleased, but would follow people like 
a dog. 

During 1885 the Lorillard stable won 43 races and 
$98,490 in stakes, of which Wanda won $29,640; Dew- 
drop $17,037; Pontiac $14,955; ^^^ Unrest $10,408. 



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CHAPTER XIV 
THE SALES 

I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four 
pasterns. When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. The earth 
rings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musi- 
cal than the pipe of Hermes. Henry V. 

IT was on the 30th of January, 1886, that the racing 
world was startled by the announcement that Mr. 
LorlUard's entire stable of horses In training would be 
sold by auction at the Rancocas farm, Saturday, Febru- 
ary 27. The month had been mild enough until the 
day prior to the sale, when a "cold wave" 
rosy e er ^q^qq^^^^^ followed by a gale of wind 
reaching a velocity of sixty miles an hour, and thus 
rendered the expedition unpleasant. But the atten- 
dance was very large — owners, trainers, jockeys, book- 
makers, officials, race-goers, and journalists appeared 
— and It quite reminded one of a great race-day. 

The sale was held In the mammoth glass-covered 
building used as a playhouse for the weanlings In cold 
weather, and a better place could not have been se- 
lected, as the sunlight through the glass tempered the 

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cold atmosphere and rendered It quite comfortable. At 
two o'clock, Col. Bruce, the auctioneer, mounted the 
rostrum and after a few remarks Drake Carter was 

led In, and, starting at $1500, was sold 
^ , , to Chas. Boyle. Emperor followed, a 

grandly topped horse, but the marks of 
the Irons made bidders cautious, and Mr. Fearing se- 
cured him for $700. There was a ripple when Pontlac 
was led In, his black coat gleaming like satin. Mr. 
Rothschild bid $5000, Mr. Reed $6000, Mr. Dwyer 
$7000, and the crowd began cheering as he reached 

$15,000. "Give me $17,000?" asked the 

r -* auctioneer. Mr. Reed nodded. "It 's 

jor ^iy,^oo 

against you," said the Colonel. "$17,- 
500," said Mr. Dwyer, and the Suburban winner went 
to the Brooklyn stable. Helmdal went cheap at $300; 
Unrest, after some competition, for $4500, and Green- 
field for $3650. 

There was a crush to reach the front as Dewdrop's 
turn came. "Here she comes, the pick of the land!" 
somebody called out, as the white face of the Cham- 
pagne winner was seen coming through the crowd, and 
there was a round of applause as the brown filly 
marched Into the ring and gazed around upon her ad- 
mirers. "This, gentlemen. Is the best filly 

Derwdrop Sells /- ^, i r t 

r d- or the year — perhaps or any year. 1 can- 

dor ^2g,000 ^ r r J J 

not say too much of her," began Col. 
Bruce. "How much am I offered?" "Ten thousand," 

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said Mr. Reed. "I won't take it," answered Bruce; 
"make it fifteen." "Well, fifteen, then," replied Reed. 
Then Mr. Dwyer bid a thousand. "We will give them 
a race for it," said Mr. Walcott, for whom Mr. Reed 
was bidding. Nineteen, twenty, twenty-two, and then 
twenty-four thousand was reached, and the crowd be- 
gan to cheer. Mr. Reed stopped. Then Mr. Scott 
began bidding against Mr. Dwyer. The noise was so 
great that the filly became alarmed, and Col. Bruce 
begged the crowd to keep quiet. Dewdrop reached 
$27,000. Mr. Scott bid $500, Mr. Dwyer raised it 
$500. "Twenty-eight thousand I am offered," said 
Bruce, looking at Mr. Scott. "Are you done?" "Five," 
responded Scott, but again Dwyer raised it. Bruce 
turned to Scott, but the latter shook his head, and Dew- 
drop followed Pontiac into the Dwyer stable for $29,- 
000, Mr. Phil Dwyer standing on the top of a pail in 
order to see over the heads of the crowd while he made 
his bids, while Mr. Scott stood on a chair. 

The giant Cyclops went to Mr. Walcott for $10,500, 
and Savanac to Mr. McCoy for $3750. Winfred, the 
brother to Wanda, went to the Dwyers for $13,000, 
and they also secured Pontico for $8000. Walter H. 
sold for $10,000, and "well sold" was the general ver- 
dict. Cambyses, a stalwart grey and the supposed pick 
of the two-year-olds, brought $4000, Mr. 
^ Fearing buying him for Mr. Pierre Loril- 
lard, Jr. "I was never so surprised," said young Mr. 

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Lorlllard, after the sale. "He was my pick, and I 
wanted to buy him, but father would n't hear of It. 
Mr. Fearing came to me after the sale and said father 
had told him to buy the colt for me. They tell me a 
grey horse has never won the English Derby, but we '11 
try him anyhow." Shawnee, a most raclng-like colt, 
went to Mr. Walcott for $4200; Kismet, half-brother 
to Katrine, to Mr. Ryan; while the Dwyers, to show 
their faith In Dewdrop, bought her half-sister Daruna, 
and Chas. Hill took Esquimau. Puzzle, with the repu- 
tation of having done three furlongs In 37 seconds with 
no lbs., was snapped up by Mr. Walcott, who also 
took Hypasia and Catiline. 

The twenty-seven head brought $149,050, an aver- 
age of $5520. All hands declared It "a splendid sale" ; 
but there was a tinge of sadness when they 
spoke, for they realized that the "cherry 
and black" jacket had been folded and put away, for 
how long only Mr. Lorlllard, who was awaiting the 
news In Florida, could say. 

The sale of the Rancocas Stud, which followed on 
October 15, 1886, brought an enormous attendance of 
horsemen and breeders from all parts of the country 
as well as from abroad, among them VIcomte de la 
Motte Rouge and Henri le Contenis Caumont, In- 
spectors of the Government Studs of France. The 
sale Included the five stallions, Mortemer, Iroquois, 
Duke of Magenta, PIzarro and Moccasin, as well as 



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seventy-eight brood-mares. Of course Iroquois was 

expected to bring the top price, which he did. It was 

known that the English were after him and that Mr. 

Withers had the commission from England to buy him. 

However, Gen. W. H. Jackson of 
Iroquois Goes to the . t^ n ^ t i o i • n^ 
Bll M d Stud Belle Meade btud m 1 ennessee 

wanted him too, and "drew" bidders 
by creating an Impression that Mortemer was the ob- 
ject of his visit. When It came to bidding he outlasted 
them all and secured Iroquois for $20,000. Mr. 
Withers bought Mortemer for his own Brookdale 
Stud and Duke of Magenta went to Mr. Forbes of 
Boston. Milton Young really secured the bargain of 
the sale In Pizarro. Mr. Haggin purchased the pick 
of the brood-mares. The five stallions brought $31,- 
950, an average of $6390; the seventy-eight brood- 
mares $110,945, an average of $1422.37; the grand 
total being $142,895, an average of $1721.62. 



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CHAPTER XV 

THE RETURN TO RACING 

1889-1895 

They all finish gamely; as whipping and spurring, 

The jockeys ride home at a desperate pace; 
The crowd with the wildest excitement is stirring, 

So keen is the struggle, so close is the race. 
And opinions divided how 't will be decided ; 

Till Lamplighter, bringing his speed into play, 
The maxim endorses of "horses for courses," 

And bears off the honors and spoils of the day. 

1889 

HE will not keep out of racing long— he 's too fond 
of it," many said when Mr. Lorillard withdrew 
in 1886. But two seasons passed, and he was still de- 
voting his time to the building of Tuxedo, the charming 
resort that has since become so popular with New York 
people. It was no easy task to take a large tract of 
land and render it as attractive as he did. It was not 

until 1889 that he began to manifest a 

Mr. Lorillard 1 • ^ ^ • • 1 1 • 

„ jj . renewed mterest m racmg by purcnasmg 

Kesumes Kaang ^ o ^ jt o 

several yearlings at the sales, and took 
over several horses bred by his friend Mr. Fearing. 

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He also had the three-year-old filly Rlzpah, by Mor- 
temer-Parthenia, and she it was that announced the 
return of the "cherry jacket" to racing in 1889, win- 
ning two races at Monmouth Park. 

1890 

In 1890 Mr. Lorillard took the field with a stable 
composed of the four-year-old Pagan and the two- 
year-olds Kildeer, Catlan, Chartreuse, Lima, Uncer- 
tainty and Variety. Nearly all these won races of 
minor importance. Kildeer, a filly by 
Darebin from Loulanier, won the Camden 
Stakes, and was a filly of some class. Lima was a cap- 
ital filly, a daughter of Pizarro and Gladiola. She beat 
a large field at Morris Park, but at Monmouth was so 
badly kicked at the post for the Independence Stakes 
that she was turned out for the remainder of the 
season. 

1891 

In 1 89 1 the stable began to assume greater propor- 
tions, with John Huggins as trainer and George Taylor 
as jockey. It contained Kildeer, Lima, and Sirocco, 
three-year-olds, and the two-year-olds Lorimer, Crys- 
tal, Ginka, Kilkenny, Kirsch, Stalac- 
• fL T J tite. Vestibule, Yemen, and Delusion. 

Later the colt Johnnie Hecksher was 
added. Vestibule won the Galliard Stakes at Mor- 

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ris Park; Kildeer won the Elizabeth and Hunter 
Stakes ; and the stable captured quite a number of minor 
races. During the season Curt Gunn, a two-year-old 
owned by Mr. Laudeman, had played a conspicuous 
part In the West, and later In the East, winning 
seven races. He was a light chestnut by Onondaga 
from Sophronia, rather light in bone below the 
knee, and rather pigeon-toed, but his form 
was very high, and Mr. Lorlllard pur- 
chased him for $15,000 and changed his name to Loco- 
hatchee. The same autumn he purchased of Hough 
Brothers the celebrated filly La Tosca, three years old, 
one of the best fillies of the day. Certainly she was 
the best filly St. Blaise ever sired, and her dam 
Toucques was a daughter of La Toucques, which ran 
second for the original Grand Prix de Paris 
in 1863. La Tosca had, as a two-year-old, 
won many stakes for Mr. Belmont, and was sold after 
his death for $13,000 to Hough Brothers, in whose col- 
ors she had a brilliant season as a three-year-old. She 
won for Mr. Lorlllard, but did not appear at four, and 
although Huggins brought her out at five and won 
races, she started favorite for the Metropolitan and 
pulled up lame. A more beautiful bloodlike filly never 
bore a silken jacket. There was a refinement to her 
that made other horses look common, and she went 
into the stud of the Sanfords of Amsterdam, N. Y., and 
became the dam of Chuctanunda. 



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1892 
In 1892 the stable employed the colored jockey Ham- 
ilton. Klldeer was still in training, the others being 
Locohatchee, Julien, Kilkenny, Joy, Vestibule, Yemen, 
Derfargilla, Johnnie Hecksher, and Lorimer, and the 
filly Addie by Iroquois was purchased on her Western 
reputation, but never won a race for the stable. Loco- 
hatchee ran a tremendous second to Pessara for the 
Metropolitan, and second to St. Florian for the Bowl- 
ingbrook. He was unplaced for the Suburban, but won 

the Hackensack, Raritan, Palisade, and 

Winninq Stakes t- 1 1 1 c ^ 1 tj- 

* rreehold btakes. He was not a ro- 

bust horse, and "trained off." Kildeer won the Rah- 
way Handicap, beating a "crack" field in Pessara, 
Raceland, Russell, and Pickpocket, a mile in 1.37/4- 
Julien won several races, Vestibule won the Swift 
Stakes, and Yemen, a younger brother of Himyar, also 
won races, as did Derfargilla, among them the Eliza- 
beth Stakes, beating Yorkville Belle. 

By this time Mr. Lorillard had begun to feel an 
awakening of the old fire that had slumbered during 
the seasons since his return to racing. "I am tired of 
selling-platers," he said, "I 'd like to have a 'top- 
sawyer' once more — if I can find one." He had his 
eye on Lamplighter, the brown son of 
"^^ ^ Spendthrift and Torchlight, in Captain 
Brown's stable, and on August 9 Lamplighter won the 
Champion Stakes at Monmouth, beating Banquet, 

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Locohatchee, Poet Scout, Raceland, and Montana, i ^ 
miles in 2.32^, and immediately Mr. Lorillard pur- 
chased him. It brought quick results, as Lamplighter 
won the Choice Stakes, Twin City Handicap, Bridge 
Handicap, First Special, Second Special, and other 
events. He retired to winter quarters quite the "crack" 
of the year. Mr. Lorillard had tried to buy the Eng- 
lish Derby winner Common, but without effect. 

1893 
Lamplighter was allotted 1 27 lbs. for the Suburban of 
1893, and 125 lbs. for the Brooklyn Handicap, and in- 
deed he was "top-weight" throughout the season. The 
winter favorite for both the great spring handicaps, he 
went to the post for the Brooklyn carrying the public 
money, but was "pocketed" throughout the 

TT J- ^ race and could never get through until too 
Handicap ^ ° ° ^ 

late. He finished a good second to Diabolo. 
Mr.Lorillard's friendsurgedhimtolodge a claim against 
some of the jockeys for interfering with his horse, but he 
refused, saying, "I cannot prove anything, although it 
looked as if my horse was cut off every time he tried 
to come through. The stewards say they saw nothing 
sufficient to disturb the placing. I do not suppose they 
can see everything and I often think the only solution 
of the matter would be to have an electric car for the 
stewards to follow the horses — to have It just inside 
the rails and keep as close to the horses as possible." 



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For the Suburban Lamplighter had incurred a pen- 
alty of 2 lbs. for having won a stake, making his weight 
129 lbs. But he went to the post an even-money favor- 
ite. Lowlander, a five-year-old with only 105 lbs., 
starting at 12 to i, took the lead and made a strong 
pace throughout, winning by a short length from Ter- 
rifier, 5 years with 95 lbs., who beat Lamplighter four 
lengths for the place. The stable and 

c:w/)/g ers ace ^^^ public fell heavily over the defeat 
for the Suburban ^ ^ ■' 

of Lamplighter. And yet the stable 

had a "line" that should have made it respect the 
chances of Lowlander. In the Brooklyn Handicap 
Diabolo had beaten Lamplighter with a concession of 
13 lbs. A week later Lowlander had beaten Diabolo 
with a concession of 5 lbs. Again, only three days be- 
fore the Suburban, Mr. Lorlllard's four-year-old Kil- 
kenny had beaten Lowlander, the latter conceding Kil- 
kenny 1 1 lbs., and Kilkenny had given him 

r, about a c lbs. beating. As Lamplighter had 

on torm -* ^ ° i- o 

129 lbs. in the Suburban, and Lowlander 
105 lbs., this would mean putting in Kilkenny at 
99 lbs., and the stable knew Lamplighter could not 
concede Kilkenny 30 lbs. Indeed, John Huggins said, 
"Rogers has set people crazy about Lamplighter. He 
thinks him a great deal better horse than I do." Thus 
if Lamplighter could not concede 30 lbs. to his stable 
companion Kilkenny, he could hardly concede 24 lbs. to 
Lowlander. However, Lamplighter was sent to Chi- 

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cago for the Columbus Handicap, but fretted to noth- 
ing and finished "nowhere." Returning East he won 
the Fall Stakes, Labor Day Stakes, Standard Stakes, 
Maturity Stakes, and other events. Then Mr. Loril- 
lard sold him to Mr. Walbaum and he was defeated in 
the special race with Tammany. 

At his best, Lamplighter was a fine race-horse, but 

unfortunate and eccentric. No son could have been more 

unlike his sire than he; for, while Spendthrift had the 

composure of Vere de Vere, Lamplighter was nervous 

and irritable to such a degree that often his naturally 

fine turn of speed was quite neutralized. He was not 

cowardly, but over-anxious, and he had queer notions 

about being placed on the inside or out- 

amp ig ers ^|^^ position at the post; while if a horse 

"bumped" him during a race, or shut him 

off, he seemed to lose all sense of the situation. He 

certainly should have won the Brooklyn Handicap, but 

every horse in the race seemed to cross or foul him. 

Mr. Gebhard begged Mr. Lorillard to lodge a claim, 

but the latter refused. 

1894-95 

It was with a moderate stable that Mr. Lorillard took 
the field in 1894, Liza, Anisette, April Fool, Dolabra, 
De Courcey, Redowoc, and Flush being the most prom- 
inent. Anisette, a good filly by Topgallant-Wau- 
culla, won the Salvator and Briar Root Stakes at Sara- 

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toga. Dolabra, by Emperor-Dolinka, won the Sap- 
phire Stakes and Holly Handicap. Liza, a filly by 
Rayon d'Or, won the Flash Stakes, beating Cesarlon. 
The season of 1895 again saw a small but select sta- 
ble represent the "cherry and black." It 

, T • was very successful. Anisette, April Fool, 
and Ltza -^ , . ' r 

Ardath, Liza, DIakka, Dolabra, Heresy, 
Bloomer, and King of Bohemia were all winners, Liza 
winning the Swift Stakes, and the historical Travers at 
Saratoga; Anisette won the Albany, DIakka the Mc- 
Grathlana, and Heresy the Neptune. 



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CHAPTER XVI 

THE SECOND CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND 

1896-1901 

Say next, O muse, of all Achaia breeds 
Who bravest fought, or reined the noblest steeds? 
Eumelus' mares were foremost In the chase, 
As eagles fleet and of Pheretian race. 
Bred where Plena's fruitful fountains flow, 
And trained by him who bears the silver bow, 
Fierce in the fight their nostrils breathe a flame, 
Their height, their color, and their age the same. 

The Iliad. 

AFTER the New York Constitutional Convention 
^ of 1894 passed the act prohibiting bookmaking 
and several of the meetings were abandoned and the 
gates closed, Mr. Lorillard determined upon another 
campaign in England. His determination was not due 
to that feeling too frequent among 

^ r f J Americans who attain wealth and then 

to tnglana 

persuade themselves that they are too 
good for their own country. He found racing in Amer- 
ica too precarious, too greatly dependent upon the 
whims or greed of politicians, and that a man with a 
large stable and valuable engagements in stakes which 

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were declared void because of sudden legislation, was 
in a bad plight, as it rendered his stock almost value- 
less. He wanted greater security, and that English 
racing assured. Accordingly, at the end of the season 
of 1895, he shipped to England his entire stable, con- 
sisting of Anisette, Dolabra, Diakka, King of Bo- 
hemia, and the two-year-olds Berzak, Astolphe, Quib- 
ble, Laverock, Equinox, Glaring, Sandia and Dorado. 

1896 

During the season of 1896 In England, Berzak was 
the most successful, as he won the Newmarket Two- 
Years-Old Stakes, the Rutland Stakes, and the Clear- 
well Stakes, In the latter defeating so good a one as 
Goletta. He was also second for the Dewhurst Plate. 
Diakka won three races. Including Peverll of the Peak 
Handicap, beating seventeen. Including 
Marco and Prince Barcaldine. Dolabra 
won the Rufford Abbey Plate and Mile Plate at Leices- 
ter, Glaring won a maiden plate at Birmingham, and 
Sandia won four races of less Importance. 

1897 

In 1897 Mr. Lorlllard started over twenty horses In 
England. Dolabra won the Stanley Plate and the 
Stand Plate, also the Seaforth Handicap. Diakka won 
four races, among them the Subscription Stakes and 
the Duke of York Stakes, beating a "crack" field com- 

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posed of Marco, Laveno, Amphora, and Shaddock. 
Sandia, by Sailor Prince-Saluda, won five races, among 
them the Fernhill Stakes, and the Biennial at Ascot, 
Lingfield Handicap, the Scarborough 
Stakes and the old Cambridgeshire 
Handicap. Belisama, 2 years, by Sensation, won two 
Bentinck Plates at Nottingham. Elfin, 2 years, by 
Sensation-Equality, won the Fortieth Biennial at As- 
cot. Beryl, by Sensation, won the Worcester Plate. 
Meta, 2 years, by Sensation, won the Maiden Plate at 
Newmarket, the Warren Nursery, and a free handicap 
at Worcester. 

1898 

The stable started a large number of horses In Eng- 
land in 1898. They were raced in conjunction with 
Lord William Beresford and won forty races, the prin- 
cipal winner being Caiman, a chestnut colt, 2 years, by 
Locohatchee-Happy Day, who won three events, 
among them the Clearwell Stakes and 

MMkZrk'piate ^''^ S-"^^' ^'^^^^ P^* Plate-the 
chief event in England for two-year- 
olds. He won by a length and a half, beating the 
famous Flying Fox, who won the Derby the following 
year. Caiman then ran second for the Dewhurst Plate 
to Frontier, to whom, with 131 lbs., he conceded 10 lbs. 
and was only beaten a head. This made Caiman one 
of the best of the year. Myakka, by Sensation, run- 



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ning for Mr. Lorillard, won four races, including the 
Prendergast Stakes. Dominie, by Sensation, won four 
races, including the Chevely Stakes, Granby Plate, and 
Exeter Stakes. Elfin won four races. Diakka won the 
Esher Stakes, and Berzak, Belisma, Chinook, and San- 
dia all won races. In short, Mr. Lorillard won eleven 
races and $40,164; Lord William Beresford won nine- 
teen and $33,896. 

1899 

In 1899 the stable had assumed greater proportions. 
Business having called Mr. Lorillard to America be- 
fore the end of the year. Lord William Beresford 
managed the stable, which won fifty-five races. Caiman 
won six out of eight starts. He was second to Flying 
Fox for the Two Thousand Guineas, beating Desmond 
and others. He won the Burwell, the Payne, Lingfield 
Imperial, Ascot Biennial, Zetland, and Sussex Stakes, 
and was second to Flying Fox for the St. Leger. The 
two-year-old Democrat, by Sensation from Equality, 
won seven out of eleven races, viz., the Coventry 

Stakes, Hurst Park, Foal Plate, Na- 
Democrat Wins the • 1 r» ^ rt ^ 01 

Middle Park Plate ^^^"^^ breeders. Produce Stakes, 

Champagne Stakes, and Rous Me- 
morial. Then he won the Middle Park Plate, beating 
Diamond Jubilee, the winner of the Derby the follow- 
ing year. The three-year-old filly Sibola won five out 
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Guineas, the Wood DItton, Champion Breeders, and 
Scarborough Stakes. She also ran second for the Oaks. 
Dominie won the Newmarket and Midsummer Stakes, 
Berzak, Chinook, Doric, Jiffy, Meta, Tarollnta, Jou- 
vence. Pedometer, Lutetia, Etolle, Perdlcus, Pomfret, 
and Solano all won. It was a great year for American 
horses— the best the stable had In England. Demo- 
crat became the property of General Lord Kitchener, 
who rode him at the Durbar at Delhi; and when the 
equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener was cast In bronze 
at Calcutta, Democrat was the model chosen at Lord 
Kitchener's request. 

1900 

During 1900 Mr. Lorlllard remained In America, but 
he maintained a small stable In England, the horses 
being trained by the English trainer Blackwell. They 
Included Hamllcar, b. c, 2 years, by Sensation, from 
Hope IV; Exedo, ch. c, 2 years, by Sensation, from 
Equality; Laus, b. c, 2 years, by Sensation, from Liza; 
Scythia, ch. f., 2 years, by Sailor Prince, from Saluda, 
and Tantalus, ch. c, 2 years, by Sailor Prlnce-Tar- 
bouche. Of these Exedo won the Prendergast Stakes 
and Clearwell Stakes and $7536; Tantalus won one 
race, and the total was three races and $8300. 



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CHAPTER XVII 

THE RETURN TO AMERICA 

1899-1900 

The colors that Barbee, 

Feakes, Hay ward and Shauer 
Have worn in success and disaster; 

The colors Fred Archer 
To victory bore 

At Epsom, Ascot and Doncaster. 
Then fill up your glass 

And let the toast pass 
In champagne or claret or sherry, 

And drink to the toast: 
"Be it first past the post"— 

The Lorillard jacket of "Cherry." 

MR. LORILLARD spent the season of 1899 in 
America, but while his best horses had been 
sent to England, he was not long in collecting some 
horses to carry the "cherry" jacket at home. He pur- 
chased of Mr. Madden for $25,000 the bay colt David 
Garrick, 2 years, by Hanover, from 
D dC k ^^S Woffington, also the two-year-old 
Maribert from Mr. Fleischman, and 
these, with Albula, Petrea, Prima, Salamis, and 



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Ganymede of his own breeding, took the field, adding 
a colt called The Chamberlain. They won several races, 
but the only conspicuous ones were with David Gar- 
rlck, who won the Reapers, and finally 
DayidGarrick ^^^ Annual Champion Stakes of 1900, 
yy ins Annual 1 • t^ 1 n 

Champion Stakes beating Ethelbert and others at 2>4 

miles. The race was worth $19,650, 
and the stable's winnings at the Coney Island autumn 
meeting amounted to $24,480. 

David Garrick was Intended for a high-class horse, 
but he had a temper of his own, and was an almost 
impossible horse at the post. However, he had shown 
enough form to make Mr. LorlUard think seriously 
of his chance for the Ascot Gold Cup. He had won 
the Derby, the St. Leger, the Middle Park Plate, and 
now he yearned for a conquest of this great after-test 

of Derby and St. Leger winners, which 

Garrick and 1 t * 1 j o * u j 

^ ,_ , only Isinglass and Persimmon had ac- 

Danny Maher •' '^ 

Sail for England compllshed within twenty years previ- 
ous. He had tried David Garrick and 
proved him a stayer, and that was the needed quality. 
Accordingly, David Garrick was shipped to Blackwell 
In England, and Danny Maher, his jockey, accom- 
panied him, arriving at Newmarket In October, 1900. 

David Garrick wintered well, and with the top- 
weight, 122 lbs., started for the City and Suburban at 
Epsom April 27, 1901, with 10 to i against him in the 
betting. Maher rode him, but he was unplaced, the 



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winner, Australian Star, a five-year-old, carrying io8 
lbs. On May 8 David Garrick appeared for the Ches- 
ter Cup, 2j4 rniles. He was within a 

Da-vtd Garrick ^^^^^ ^f i^gj^g top-weight, he having 122 
pytns the 

Chester Cup ^^^- ^^ Mazagan's 123 lbs. But David 
Garrick was not to be denied this time. 
Staying was his forte, and the distance favored him, he 
winning easily by two lengths, conceding 13 lbs. to the 
second horse. He started for the Epsom Gold Cup, 
ij4 miles, an odds-on favorite, and ran second to 
Merry Gal; and thus the career of the "cherry and 
black," which had begun at Long Branch In 1873, ended 
at Epsom in June, 1901. 



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CHAPTER XVIII 
CONCLUSION 

THUS we have traced the story of the "cherry and 
black" jacket from Saxon to David Garrick, 
from 1873 to 1 901, through twenty-nine years of rac- 
ing and its vicissitudes; beginning with the days when 
the "blue with red sash" of the McDaniel Confederacy 
rode triumphant with its Harry Bassett and Spring- 
bok; succeeded by the period when the "maroon and 
red" of the Nursery rose again to power with Sultana, 
Olitipa and Fiddlestick; only to be followed by the 
"white with red star" of Mr. Astor, with Vagrant and 
Baden Baden. Then comes the "blue and orange" of 
"Prince George," with Harold, Spinaway, and Sensa- 
tion. Anon, we have "the Dwyer dynasty" with 
Bramble, Blackburn, Hindoo, Miss Woodford, Tre- 
mont, and Hanover, interrupted by the triumphs of the 
"tricolor" of Cassatt and the "orange and blue" of 
Haggin, the "all scarlet" of Morris, and the "all 
black" of Withers. Now we have the era of Keene 
and the "white with blue spots," and its Domino, Com- 
mando, Sysonby and Colin. But through all these 



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years, with their ebb and flow of fortune, the "cherry 
and black" of Lorlllard retained its prestige and main- 
tained the "balance of power" on the turf to a degree 
that in the field of world politics statesmen have strug- 
gled to preserve; and whatever the asperities of the 
time may have produced, It cannot be said in relation 
to his career as a turfman that Pierre Lorlllard lived 
in vain. 

It was Mr. Lorlllard who invaded the turf of Eng- 
land with greater success than has fallen to any foreign 
turfman. It was the success of Iroquois and Parole 
that gave the great impulse to racing In America, in 
that It attracted the attention and aroused the pride 
and the Interest of the people in the sport, and led to 
Its wonderful growth and popularity throughout the 
country. 

It was Mr. Lorlllard who Introduced into our stakes 
the minor forfeit clause, whereby, after a horse had 
been tried, it could be "declared out" on the payment 
of a nominal sum. Previous to this all stakes had been 
either "half forfeit" or "play or pay." 

It was he who proposed an amendment to the Rules 
of Racing (and it was adopted) by which horses 
starting for a race must be notified to the Clerk of the 
Scales, and their numbers posted, fifteen minutes before 
a race. Previous to this there was no rule as to time, 
except in races for stakes. 

The colts he raced In England were given names sug- 



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gestlve of his native country. Thus he had Iroquois, 
Comanche, Santee, Seneca, Pontiac, Choctaw, Mo- 
hawk, Sachem, Massasoit, etc. — an instance of the ex- 
quisite taste and selection he used in the nomenclature 
of his horses, and which elevated the tone of racing. 
Could anything have been more appropriate than Iro- 
quois for the name of an American-bred winner of the 
Derby? 

He was one of the leading spirits of the Coney 
Island Jockey Club, and was Mr. Lawrence's adviser 
in the conception and construction of such great events 
as the Suburban, the Futurity, and the Realization. 

He was always ready to contribute a purse or endow 
a race for stakes. To the Lorillard Stakes, which he 
founded and endowed, in consideration of which it was 
given his name, he added, during seven seasons ( 1879- 
1885), the sum of $20,000. 

He expended more money in race-horses, yearlings, 
stallions, and brood-mares than any man of his genera- 
tion, and thus greatly benefited breeders and owners 
throughout the country. 

He formulated the first general plan of racing gov- 
ernment in the United States at a dinner he offered to 
turfmen for that purpose in October, 1890, out of 
which was created the Board of Control, which later 
was merged in the Jockey Club. 

He founded the first of the great Stallion Stakes in 
the East, by which the entry of a stallion secured its 

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owner a share of the stakes and qualified the entry of 
its progeny. 

He conceived and executed the plan of building 
Tuxedo, which has become one of the fashionable cen- 
tres of the country. 

It was he who introduced aluminum plates, made at 
his order by Tiffany & Co., which were much lighter 
than any ever used on the foot of a race-horse. 

It is difficult to imagine what a man possessing such 
energy of character and powers of construction would 
not have accomplished had he devoted himself to any 
of those greater fields of human endeavor which open 
to men of genius. Had Mr. Lorillard elected to take 
part in the affairs of state, it is probable that today his 
name would be mentioned with those of our eminent 
publicists; had he devoted himself to the profession of 
arms, it would not now be said that the Spanish-Ameri- 
can war produced no great general. 



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